It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
LEONARD COHENDon’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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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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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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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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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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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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Your body will never be familiar.
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