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We actually lead very violent, passionate lives and I think that we're hungry for insights into this condition. That's why we get all that stuff on television. It's really where we are, really what we are.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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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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And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.
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English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.
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I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.
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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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I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
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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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Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.
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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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I've seen the future and it's murder.
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