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Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.

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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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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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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To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time
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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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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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And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.
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Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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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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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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In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.
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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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You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.
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You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
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The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.
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Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.
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I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.
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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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