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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...
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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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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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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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
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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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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .
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Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.
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There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.
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Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.
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The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.
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My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.
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You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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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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... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through
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I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.
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