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Get ready for the future: it is murder.
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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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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