984 Quotes About Simplicity




  • Author Howard Nemerov
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    Our easy bones groaned, our flesh bakedon one side and shuddered on the other; and each manthought bitterly about primitive simplicityand decadence, and how he had been ruinedby civilization and forced by circumstancesto drink and smoke and sit up all nightinspecting those perfectly arbitrary cardsuntil he was broken-winded as a trout on a rockand had no use for the doctrines of Jean JacquesRousseau, and could no longer afforda savagery whether noble or not;

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  • Author David Constantine
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    In the night, in the utter silence of the nights among those little houses where old people live, she felt him leave the bed and in the pitch-black reach his dressing gown and leave the room. She let him go. How it troubled her, all this. Not much to ask, peace of mind at nights and a bit of ordinary cheerfulness in the day, some conversation, something to laugh about and doing nobody any harm. And not all this. A slit of light came on under the bedroom door.

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