Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.…

Leonard Cohen
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Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2014). Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen, p.341, Omnibus Press
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Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2014). Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen, p.341, Omnibus Press

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