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 don’t even hate books anymore.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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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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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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