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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
Film Actor
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Musician
Novelist
Pianist
Poet
Record Producer
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
Writer
Leonard Norman Cohen
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You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.
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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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The big change is the proximity to death.
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And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.
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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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Do not be a magician - be magic!
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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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A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.
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In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.
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Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.
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I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...
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Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
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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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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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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
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..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent
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I've seen the future and it's murder.
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First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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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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I'm planning a catastrophe.
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