The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHENShe was made of flesh and eyelashes.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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