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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.
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I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.
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I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.
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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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I'm planning a catastrophe.
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The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.
Leonard Cohen
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Get ready for the future: it is murder.
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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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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.
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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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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
Leonard Cohen
a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
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You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.
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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
No one masters the heart.
Leonard Cohen
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
Leonard Cohen
Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
Leonard Cohen
