It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
LEONARD COHENEven damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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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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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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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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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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