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I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.
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 obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.
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I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. Then let's be quiet together.
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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.
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It doesn't matter how anything happens.
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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 duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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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We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.
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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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Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.
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Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.
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One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload
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a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
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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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Your body will never be familiar.
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
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It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.
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