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“Tomorrow,’ I said quietly to myself. ‘I shall be older, where once it felt as if I were to be forever young. And the next day I shall be even older, and older more the day after that - looking back with a sterner face, scarred by lines and wrinkles, hardened by time and regret, left baffled and bemused by the world around me, which seems intent on throttling the artist and praying to the merchant and financier - more dishonest, less taken by all that is beautiful and good; more conducive to my own flavour of madness, which brews and boils with every day that passes. I do not hate the world as it is, rather for what it is not, or is no longer.

“But I can never go back, can I?”

“No,” he said.

“That’s the greatest curse of life, isn’t it; that we can never go back.”
― S.D. Wickett