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Wilfred Owen

"Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do."

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"Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do."

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."

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"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want."
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"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both."
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"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's."
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"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."
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"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."
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