Consummation is consumption We cannot consummate our bliss and not consume All joys are cakes and vanish in eating All bliss is sugar's melting in the mouth
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If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.
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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.
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Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.
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After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
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Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
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