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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.
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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I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.
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I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.
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I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.
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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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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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I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.
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I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.
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The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.
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My son and my daughter have both been an incredibly sustaining force, especially through this recent bad patch [of health]. So, I've been blessed and grateful for their company and for their assistance.
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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.
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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
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The big change is the proximity to death.
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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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You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.
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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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Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill And here is your love, That lists where it will
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The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
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