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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

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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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You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.
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All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
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As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.
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