Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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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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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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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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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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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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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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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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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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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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