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The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts
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I don't have any spiritual strategy.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.
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Maybe we, the cultural workers , could apply ourselves. We're not going to resolve it in this moment or even in this generation, but perhaps as some kind of agenda we could invite our writers and cultural workers to address the problem a little more responsibly, because people are suffering tremendously from a want of data.
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The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
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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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I'm planning a catastrophe.
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I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .
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Some people are graced with a flow some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.
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