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Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.
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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I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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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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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
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Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder
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Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.
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You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.
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We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.
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And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way
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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief... Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried... And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear.
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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 dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.
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It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender
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