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The big change is the proximity to death.
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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The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.
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The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.
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Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.
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It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.
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The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.
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I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.
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It doesn't matter how anything happens.
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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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Some people are graced with a flow some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.
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My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.
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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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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
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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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Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality.
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Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.
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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
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It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
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