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Calling Cohen “the most beautiful man I have ever known,” Wieseltier writes about his decades-long friendship with Cohen in prose so poetic that it would have surely won its subject’s approval. “He lived in a weather of wisdom, which he created by seeking it rather than by finding it. He swam in beauty, because in its transience he aspired to discern a glimpse of eternity: There was always a trace of philosophy in his sensuality,” Wieseltier comments.