It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his da…

Leonard Cohen
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It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2008). Book of Longing, p.125, McClelland & Stewart
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