"It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet."

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Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.751, Delphi Classics

Lytton Strachey

“It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.”
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

Source : FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014
“We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.”
“If you want change, create the causes.”
“Iâ€™ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics.”
“I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.”
“When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.”
“Now that I've relinquished my fantasies of all the people I wish I could be, and stopped feeling guilty about [them], I have more time for the things that I truly enjoy.”

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