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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
Author
Literary Critic
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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
Experience
Mystical
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
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To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.
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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
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