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The human condition2 quotes
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in — Leonard Cohen · 1992Now, maybe there's a God above
As for me all I've ever learned from love
Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
But it's not a cry that you're hear tonight
It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the light
No, it's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah — Leonard Cohen · 1984Canada1 quote
Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else. — Leonard Cohen · 1963Healing1 quote
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in — Leonard Cohen · 1992Human frailty1 quote
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in — Leonard Cohen · 1992Montreal1 quote
Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else. — Leonard Cohen · 1963Patriarchy1 quote
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. — Leonard Cohen · 1963Pessimism1 quote
I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin. — Leonard Cohen · 1993Rain1 quote
I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin. — Leonard Cohen · 1993Realism1 quote
I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin. — Leonard Cohen · 1993Things are getting worse1 quote
Everybody knows the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows. — Leonard Cohen · 1988Women1 quote
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. — Leonard Cohen · 1963Women's bodies1 quote
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. — Leonard Cohen · 1963