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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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Leonard Norman Cohen
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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And here you are hurried, And here you are gone And here is the love, That it's all built upon.
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Maybe we, the cultural workers , could apply ourselves. We're not going to resolve it in this moment or even in this generation, but perhaps as some kind of agenda we could invite our writers and cultural workers to address the problem a little more responsibly, because people are suffering tremendously from a want of data.
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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
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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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What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.
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I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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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'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.
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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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I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...
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It doesn't matter how anything happens.
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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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I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms
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My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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