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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
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.
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I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don't matter how it all went wrong That don't change the way I feel And I can't believe that time's Gonna heal this wound I'm speaking of There ain't no cure for love
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.
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I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.
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I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.
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We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.
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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
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Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.
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One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
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The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars
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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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And here you are hurried, And here you are gone And here is the love, That it's all built upon.
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Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.
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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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From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.
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