I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHENIt is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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We are ugly but we have the music.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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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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I have tried in my way to be free.
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