People change and their bodies change and their hair grows gray and falls out and their bodies decay and die… but there is something that doesn’t cha… - Leonard Cohen

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People change and their bodies change and their hair grows gray and falls out and their bodies decay and die… but there is something that doesn’t change about love and about the feelings we have for people. Marianne, the woman of So Long, Marianne, when I hear her voice on the telephone, I know something is completely intact even though our lives have separated and we’ve gone our very different paths. I feel that love never dies, and that when there is an emotion strong enough to gather a song around it, that there is something about that emotion that is indestructible…

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About Leonard Cohen

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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From bitter searching of the heart,
quickened with passion and with pain
we rise
to play a greater part
this is the faith from which we start.

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And summoned now
to deal with your invincible defeat
You live your life
As if it's real

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