"I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder."

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Source : Ernest Christopher Dowson, Desmond Flower, Henry Maas (1968). “The Letters of Ernest Dowson”, p.35, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Ernest Dowson

#Absinthe Quotes #Grows Quotes

“Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.”
“I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.”
“Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day”
“Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?”
“The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.”
“When night falls people become as lonely as snowflakes floating down from a gray city sky. Now and again we fall past a streetlamp and are visible, a brief moment apart, REAL-- we can be seen. We exist. Then we vanish into the gray darkness and the earth draws us to it.”

Source : Erik Fosnes Hansen (1996). “Psalm at Journey's End”, p.160, Macmillan
“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.”
“Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.”

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