It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
LEONARD COHENI’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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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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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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There is a crack in everything.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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