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I guess you go for nothing, if you really want to go that far.
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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Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!
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It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.
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The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.
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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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The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.
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I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
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But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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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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Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
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