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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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The phrase "after-life" was also vaguely confused with going to church and not wanting to be dead - a perplexity which can be omitted from a narrative in which I am doing my best to confine myself to actual happenings. At the age of twenty-two I believed myself to be unextinguishable.Siegfried Sassoon
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All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities.Siegfried Sassoon