Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
LEONARD COHENWho could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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