I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHENYour faith was strong, but you needed proof.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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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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Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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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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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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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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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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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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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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