<i>Damn these indecisions!</i> This accursed difficulty of … - John Cowper Powys

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Damn these indecisions! This accursed difficulty of deciding, of deciding anything at all, seemed to have grown into an obsession with him. To have to decide...that was the worst misery on earth!

John Cowper Powys

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John Cowper Powys (October 8 1872 – June 17 1963) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, anarchist, and autobiographer.

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It was characteristic of the vein of unhappy sluggishness and inertness in him that only when impressions had subsided into the remote past could he be thrilled by them. The reality of the present seemed always weighted with something hurting.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

"Nothing is against nature!" he retorted. "That's the mistake people make; and it causes endless unhappiness."

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