Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
LEONARD COHENDon’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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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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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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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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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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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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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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