As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
LEONARD COHENMy abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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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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Your body will never be familiar.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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