As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
LEONARD COHENStunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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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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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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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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