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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'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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Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
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Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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No one masters the heart.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. Then let's be quiet together.
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Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.
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Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.
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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.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
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You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .
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The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again the dove is never free.
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I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.
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The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.
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