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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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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .
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I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.
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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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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.
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It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.
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I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.
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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.
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It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.
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It doesn't matter how anything happens.
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My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
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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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[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.
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Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.
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Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.
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There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine
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Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.
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If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
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