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Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms
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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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At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.
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Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.
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Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
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It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.
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I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
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I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.
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We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.
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ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars
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My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca.
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If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man.
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Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.
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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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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Leonard Cohen
The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
Leonard Cohen
When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.
Leonard Cohen
It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.
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Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.
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