From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start. (Leonard Cohen)

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

Leonard Cohen

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