William Empson
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A humanist, as I understand the term, says, "This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it."
It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.... (more William Empson quotes)
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