Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
LEONARD COHENBlessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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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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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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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 is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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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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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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