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It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.
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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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.
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A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.
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It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.
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Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.
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There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload
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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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His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.
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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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I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.
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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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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at the traffic-jam. They’re saving me a seat.
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But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
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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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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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