The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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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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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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