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You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.

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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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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts
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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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May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.
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I've seen the future and it's murder.
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A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.
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No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, God, so-and-so wrecked that song. Well, I'm unaware of it. Anybody doing one of my tunes has earned my gratitude, and I don't get that many covers where I have the luxury to choose.
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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'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.
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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.
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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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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep
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Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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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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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
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