Quote by Leonard Cohen
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to rev

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. – Leonard Cohen

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Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region. – Leonard Cohen

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Pollution
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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and hes written poetry then let the verdict be that hes a poet. – Leonard Cohen

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Poetry
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. – Leonard Cohen

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Sleep
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The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead. – Olive Schreiner

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Hurt, Injury

Dont agonize. Organize. – Florynce R. Kennedy

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Hurt, Injury

We can only make ourselves the victim. – Gillian Anderson

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Hurt, Injury

When a mans life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other mens actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him. – Simone Weil

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Hurt, Injury

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True happiness involves the full use of ones power and talents. – John W. Gardner

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