“As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill
So my body leaves no scar
On you and never will”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
“But we never want to talk about sadness without leaving a scar. We don't even realize that behind the wound inside the oyster's body is a beautiful pearl.”
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“The wounds of the spirit heal and leave no scars.”
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François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Les défauts de l'âme sont comme les blessures du corps: quelque soin qu'on prenne de les guérir, la cicatrice paraît toujours, et elles sont à tout moment en danger de se rouvrir.
Variant translation: The defects of the mind are like the wounds of the body. Whatever care we take to heal them the scars ever remain, and there is always danger of their reopening.
Maxim 194.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker
On the autobiographical nature of his films, in The Atlantic (December 1965)