"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
-Leonard Cohen
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"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.“
-Leonard Cohen
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"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself."
-Leonard Cohen
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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 he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet."
-Leonard Cohen
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"Music is the emotional life of most people."
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"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true."
-Leonard Cohen
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"Success is survival."
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
-John Keats
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
-Khalil Gibran
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
-Carl Jung
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