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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. Then let's be quiet together.
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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I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.
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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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I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.
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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 community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.
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Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
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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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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
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I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.
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When you're younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love.
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The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.
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All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
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From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.
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Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.
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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.
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We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.
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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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There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine
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I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.
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Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.
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