I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHENYou wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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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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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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There is a crack in everything.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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