The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHENHow bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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