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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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It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
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Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
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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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It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.
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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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I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.
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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
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Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love
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Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.
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My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.
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If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.
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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
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I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.
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It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.
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If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come.
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Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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