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One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.
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Chapter V, p. 61

 

Edwin Lefevre

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"Come away!  her dancing says. Come out into the splendid perilous world!  Come up on the mountain-top where the great wind blows!  Learn to be young always!  Learn to be incessantly renewed!  Learn to live in the intemperate careless land of song and rhythm and rapture!  Say farewell to the world you know and join the passionate spirits of the world’s history!  Storm through into your dreams!  Give yourself up to the frenzy that is in the heart of life, and never look back, and never regret! You shall become sweet and mad as a lover …

 

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