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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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When you're younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love.
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Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.
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Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
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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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Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee
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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.
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It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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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.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.
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It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.
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I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.
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Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.
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You win a while, and then it’s done - Your little winning streak.
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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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There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.
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And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way
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The big change is the proximity to death.
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