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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
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I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.
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I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.
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The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.
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I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.
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