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The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
Film Actor
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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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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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
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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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It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of the artist, but most people are just trying to get their foot in the door and make a living.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.
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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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..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent
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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
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Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.
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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.
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Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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