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You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

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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When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of the artist, but most people are just trying to get their foot in the door and make a living.
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