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I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

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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We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.
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Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah
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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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Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.
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there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep
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Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill And here is your love, That lists where it will
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I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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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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Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.
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Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.
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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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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
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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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There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.
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I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
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You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.
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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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Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love
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