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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.


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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.



I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.



How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.



I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action



I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.



As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.




Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP



Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.

Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.



Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.





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