I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer ex… - Leonard Cohen

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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

Leonard Cohen

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Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ (21 September 1934 - 7 November 2016) was a Canadian poet, songwriter, singer, and novelist noted for the bold exploration of religion, politics, sexuality, personal relationships and personal isolation in his works.

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Birth Name: Leonard Norman Cohen

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I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

And I sing this for the captain
Whose ship has not been built
For the mother in confusion Her cradle still unfilled For the heart with no companion For the soul without a king For the prima ballerina Who cannot dance to anything

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece. - Leonard Cohen

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