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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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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.
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Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.
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The big change is the proximity to death.
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My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.
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It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.
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It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I guess you go for nothing, if you really want to go that far.
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I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.
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A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.
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Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.
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The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
Leonard Cohen
You can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It starts at 2:30 in the morning and often doesn't end until midnight, so if you can actually find a moment to have a drink or a smoke, you're quite welcome to, as long as it doesn't interfere with your capacity to follow the schedule.
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You win a while, and then it’s done - Your little winning streak.
Leonard Cohen
I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
Leonard Cohen
Love is not a victory march
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I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
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I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.
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even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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