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I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

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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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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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Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
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The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule
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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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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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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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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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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 lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.
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I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
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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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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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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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The big change is the proximity to death.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.
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I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her
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