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Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.
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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Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.
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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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It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. Then let's be quiet together.
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Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.
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Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.
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