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..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent
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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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
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My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love
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And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.
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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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Some people are graced with a flow some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.
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May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.
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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.
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The big change is the proximity to death.
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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.
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Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.
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You win a while, and then it’s done - Your little winning streak.
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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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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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It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.
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