I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city.

Siegfried Sassoon
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More Quotes By Siegfried Sassoon
  1. Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes Remembrance of all beauty that has been, And stillness from the pools of Paradise.

  2. I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

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  4. I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

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