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A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
Film Actor
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Novelist
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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Failure
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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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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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I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
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I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...
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Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
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To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
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It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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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I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.
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a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
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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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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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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.
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I'm planning a catastrophe.
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