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Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
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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You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.
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