We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people…

Leonard Cohen
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup. ✨ I'm blessed with a certain amnesia. Interview with Jian Ghomeshi, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2009.
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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
Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'. ✨ Leonard Cohen's Juno Award Acceptance Speech for 'Best Male Vocalist' in Canada, 1992.
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear. ✨ Song: Boogie Street, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001
..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent ✨ Leonard Cohen (2011). Beautiful Losers, p.159, Vintage
I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and a … ▶

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup. ✨ I'm blessed with a certain amnesia. Interview with Jian Ghomeshi, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2009.

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