My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
LEONARD COHENIt’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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