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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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Leonard Norman Cohen
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. Then let's be quiet together.
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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.
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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 always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent
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You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.
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ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars
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Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.
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I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
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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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And here you are hurried, And here you are gone And here is the love, That it's all built upon.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.
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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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