I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
LEONARD COHENChildren show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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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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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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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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There is a crack in everything.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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