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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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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.
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ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars
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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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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
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This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers exploit an immensely talented artist's loyalty and trust through greed, self-dealing, concealment, knowing misrepresentation and reckless disregard for professional fiduciary duties.
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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 dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.
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Music is the emotional life of the most people.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.
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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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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.
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Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.
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I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.
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Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
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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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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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It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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Even without the mushroom cloud still I would have hated Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death I will not be held like a drunkard under the cold tap of facts I refuse the universal alibi
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Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.
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I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.
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