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The fact that, within ten years, I lost one world, and after a time rose again, as it were, from spiritual death to find another, seems to me one of t...more

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...if only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction of individual security and made us believe that wh...more

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I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict and painful resurrection, should have led me throu...more

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Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue something that might be of value, some element of truth a...more

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When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.

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I joined the Pass Mods. class and studied the cyropaedia and Livy's Wars with a resentful feeling that there was quite enough war in the world without...more

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It is, I think, this glamour, this magic, this incomparable keying up of the spirit in a time of mortal conflict, which constitute the pacifist's real...more

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Perhaps ... To R.A.L.Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies are blue,And feel one more I do not live in vain,A...more