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English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.

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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
Film Actor
Lyricist
Musician
Novelist
Pianist
Poet
Record Producer
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
Writer
Leonard Norman Cohen
Jikan
Kill
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German
English

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I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.
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The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.
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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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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.
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Even without the mushroom cloud still I would have hated Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death I will not be held like a drunkard under the cold tap of facts I refuse the universal alibi
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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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I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.
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And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.
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The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.
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The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule
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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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Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care
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a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
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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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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
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Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
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I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don't matter how it all went wrong That don't change the way I feel And I can't believe that time's Gonna heal this wound I'm speaking of There ain't no cure for love
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You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.
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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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