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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
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.
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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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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
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Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
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Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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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Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.
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