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A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.
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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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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I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug.
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It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.
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Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.
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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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To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time
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Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.
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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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We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.
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I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
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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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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
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The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.
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First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.
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It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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