“In life we will smile, laugh, cry, bleed, die and finally laugh again.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”
Source: Songs of Leonard Cohen, Herewith: Music, Words and Photographs
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