I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have… - Siegfried Sassoon

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I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city. — Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (Andesite Press, August 8, 2015)

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

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

Soldiers are dreamers.

I'd say — "I used to know his father well; Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap." And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die — in bed.

I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city. — Siegfried Sassoon, <i>Memoirs of a … - Siegfried Sassoon

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