The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible,… - Siegfried Sassoon

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The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

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Siegfried Sassoon (September 8, 1886 – September 1, 1967) was a British poet and writer, best remembered for the poems he wrote as a soldier in World War I. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War.

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Alternative Names: Siegfried Loraine Sassoon • Saul Kain • Pinchbeck Lyre • Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon

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Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time’s to-morrows.
In the great hour of destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.

I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city.

If I ever thought of myself as a man of thirty-five it was a visualization of dreary decrepitude.

The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the sa… - Siegfried Sassoon

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