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The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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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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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
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The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.
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Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
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I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.
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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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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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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
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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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Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.
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When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.
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Do not be a magician - be magic!
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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 don't have any spiritual strategy.
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I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.
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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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