Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
LEONARD COHENDon’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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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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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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