“Depression has often been the general background of my daily life. My feeling is that whatever I did was in spite of that, not because of it. It wasn’t the depression that was the engine of my work.…That was just the sea I swam in.” ~Leonard Cohen (source)
...that is something that only the most self-aware can make... and to know that is the backdrop for all of his thoughts and still to rise above them is nothing less than heroic...
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