"A scar is what happens when the word…" — Leonard Cohen
"A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh."
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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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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.…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But…
— Antonio Banderas
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God himself took this human flesh upon him.
— William Barclay
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Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
— Geoffrey Beene
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
— Samuel Butler
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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the…
— A. S. Byatt
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we…
— Benjamin Carson
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.…
— Benjamin Carson
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
— Emile M. Cioran
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