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When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.
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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All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
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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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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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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
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