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Leonard Cohen
Canada
21 Sep 1934 // 7 Nov 2016
Singer, Songwriter, Poet
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On Writing:
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.
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On Self-knowledge:
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
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On Music:
Music is the emotional life of most people.
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On Dream:
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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On Love:
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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On Poetry:
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
The Favorite Game
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On Action:
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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On World:
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.
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On Reality:
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
Beautiful Losers
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If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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