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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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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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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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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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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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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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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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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