It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
LEONARD COHENWell, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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There is a crack in everything.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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