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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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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
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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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I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
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I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.
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One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.
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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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Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.
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Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.
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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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It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
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You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .
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From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.
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[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.
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You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.
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ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars
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