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of an event is unlikely to be interesting after it and this may be the reason why my prophetic utterances regarding the Great War took the form of Satire.

— Gilbert Cannan

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I nothing know but that I nothing know,
And therefore I sing merrily.
I sit and watch the thronging moments go,
Each taking life from me.

Bad art has always been used as an escape from life; good art admits of no escape and forces a man to see himself in a glass clearly.

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