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

Quoted in Observer

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Topic

Pessimism Realism Rain

Speaker

Leonard Cohen

Source

Observer

Medium

Newspaper

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

Occupation

Singer-songwriter Musician

From

Canada

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Citation

Cohen, Leonard. Quoted in "The Joking Troubadour of Gloom." The Daily Telegraph, 26 Apr. 1993.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source
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Time
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Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique [On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Law]. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 1, ch. 1.