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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.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.
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Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.
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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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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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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is preparing the heart for that journey outside of the cage of the ribs.
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Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder
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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
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The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.
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My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.
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I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.
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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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It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.
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A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.
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Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.
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It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality.
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