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a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
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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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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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
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To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time
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You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.
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I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.
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I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her
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You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.
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Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.
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Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality.
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Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.
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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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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
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And here you are hurried, And here you are gone And here is the love, That it's all built upon.
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One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload
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One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.
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My son and my daughter have both been an incredibly sustaining force, especially through this recent bad patch [of health]. So, I've been blessed and grateful for their company and for their assistance.
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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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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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