The purgatory I'd let myself in for always came between me … - Siegfried Sassoon

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The purgatory I'd let myself in for always came between me and the pages; there was no escape for me now.

Siegfried Sassoon

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

We were carrying something in our heads which belonged to us alone, and to those we had left behind us in the battle.

But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.

The purgatory I'd let myself in for always came between me and the pages; there was no escape for me now. - Siegfried Sassoon

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