The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHENI found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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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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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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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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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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 guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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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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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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