To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older. - Leonard Cohen

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When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes, and itself determines the realization.

Leonard Cohen

To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

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Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not just like I have a hangover in the weekend. . . the girl didn't show up or something like that. It isn't that. It's not really depression, it's a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you're gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit.

Blues, Depression, Girl, Hangover, Heart

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

Anguish, Anxiety, Clinical, Life, Speak, Strategy

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.

Afraid, Beauty, Forever, Look, Looks, Tired

You live your life as if it's real. . . . . . . a thousand kisses deep

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Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

Completely, Course, Guarding, Heart, Used

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When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes, and itself determines the realization.

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In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

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When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child. . . eventually.

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Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.

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When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief.

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