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I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...

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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.
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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
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Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.
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If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
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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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English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.
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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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The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again the dove is never free.
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We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.
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The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.
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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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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.
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The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.
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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
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I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.
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The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.
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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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It doesn't matter how anything happens.
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