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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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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
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a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
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I've seen the future and it's murder.
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Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.
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Music is the emotional life of the most people.
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.
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It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.
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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
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The big change is the proximity to death.
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Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.
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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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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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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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