Lionel Johnson quotes
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“While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.”
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“Yet, when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.”
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“Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns.”
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“Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.”
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“She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.”
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“To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake”
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Source : Interview with Elizabeth Gips, www.tripzine.com. May 1, 2001.
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“This life is but the childhood of our immortality.”
Source : Denis Johnson (2016). “Tree of Smoke”, p.317, Pan Macmillan
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