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“Innocence, once lost, can never be regained. Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost.”
John Milton, 9th December 1608 – 8th November 1674
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"Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can."
May Sarton
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“I love you the more in that I believe
you had liked me for my own sake
and for nothing else.”
― John Keats
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Marc Yankus
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For with deep broodings and colossal pains
They hatch Utopias from their dusty brains
Which are but Hells, where endless boredom reigns—
Middle-class Hells, built on a cheap, clean plan…
Roy Campbell
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“But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte
Artist: Bastien Lecouffe Deharme
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They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
But the man that is will shadow
The man that pretends to be.
T.S. Eliot
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Sonnet 116. Patrick's favourite. Take one minute out of your day to hear the bard's words spoken by someone who lived by them.
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Evelyn Waugh chatting with Elizabeth Jane Howard about being old [he was 60 at the time].
Evelyn Waugh, born 28th October 1903
"A good writer doesn't need to be indecent"
This clip is from Monitor.
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„I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes.”
Anne Brontë



























