“I’d been caught up in myself, my grand entrance to humanity. But humanity was just a bunch of people I didn’t know standing on the far side of a pool, and none of them seemed very impressed.”
― The Guest Lecture
― The Guest Lecture
“When something was said in a certain kind of way, it seemed to embrace the cosmos. It’s not just my heart, but every heart was involved, and the loneliness was dissolved, and you felt that you were this aching creature in the midst of an aching cosmos, and the ache was okay. Not only was it okay, but it was the way that you embraced the sun and the moon.”
― I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
― I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
“I had the strange sense that I was looking inside a diorama, at a scene of happiness I could witness but never enter”
― To Paradise
― To Paradise
“This self was not really you, it didn't sufficiently encompass what you care about or what you want to say. Because at the end of the day, you are uniquely ill-equipped to convey to the world what you care about or what you want to say.”
― The Guest Lecture
― The Guest Lecture
“There was the pessimism of the revolutionaries, as Keynes called it, the worry of those who thought the world so doomed that the only hope was to turn everything upside down. Then there was the pessimism of the reactionaries, those who thought the world so doomed that any sort of change at all would send civilization reeling into the abyss.”
― The Guest Lecture
― The Guest Lecture
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