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even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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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We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.
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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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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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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The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.
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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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We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.
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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
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But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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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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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.
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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 read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
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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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Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.
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