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The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule
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 loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.
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even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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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're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
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I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.
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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'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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