"As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul."

-- Wilfred Owen

#Lying Quotes #Dark Quotes #Men Quotes

“Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.”
“We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.”
“Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster the delusion that the choice of a wife or husband may be governed by a certain number of accurately weighable pros and cons. This is a crude delusion on the part of common sense.”
“Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love--that's not so bad either.”
“The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem.”
“Man can no more leave God out of his philosophies than he can live without his heart or see without his eyes.”
“The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.”
“Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face.”

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