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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. Then let's be quiet together.
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And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way
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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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We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.
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The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.
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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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