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“The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

— John Stuart Mill

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John Stuart Mill Quote: “The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

“The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

— John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill Quote: “The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

John Stuart Mill Quote: “The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

John Stuart Mill Quote: “The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

John Stuart Mill Quote: “The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

John Stuart Mill Quote: “The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

John Stuart Mill Quote: “The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

John Stuart Mill Quote: “The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

John Stuart Mill Quote: “The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

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— Dylan Thomas

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3. “Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow.”

— Dylan Thomas

4. “I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.”

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5. “Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.”

— Dylan Thomas

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6. “I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.”

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7. “He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.”

— Dylan Thomas

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8. “Though lovers be lost love shall not.”

— Dylan Thomas

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9. “When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

— Dylan Thomas

10. “Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.”

— Dylan Thomas

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11. “Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night...”

— Dylan Thomas

12. “Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.”

— Dylan Thomas

13. “Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.”

— Dylan Thomas

14. “Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.”

— Dylan Thomas

15. “Cold beer is bottled God.”

— Dylan Thomas

16. “To begin, at the beginning...”

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17. “The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.”

— Dylan Thomas

18. “After the first death, there is no other.”

— Dylan Thomas

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19. “I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.”

— Dylan Thomas

20. “Oh, isn’t life a terrible thing, thank God?”

— Dylan Thomas

21. “An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.”

— Dylan Thomas

22. “We can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.”

— Dylan Thomas

23. “If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.”

— Dylan Thomas

24. “To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.”

— Dylan Thomas

25. “And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.”

— Dylan Thomas

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26. “I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.”

— Dylan Thomas

27. “Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.”

— Dylan Thomas

28. “Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death. Then, when his soul is naked, is he one With the man in the wind, and the west moon, With the harmonious thunder of the sun.”

— Dylan Thomas

29. “Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.”

— Dylan Thomas

30. “Hands have not tears to flow.”

— Dylan Thomas

31. “It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.”

— Dylan Thomas

32. “Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.”

— Dylan Thomas

33. “A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug’s a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away?”

— Dylan Thomas

34. “I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.”

— Dylan Thomas

35. “A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

— Dylan Thomas

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— Dylan Thomas

37. “Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!”

— Dylan Thomas

38. “Love is the last light spoken.”

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39. “And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...”

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40. “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.”

— Dylan Thomas

41. “Shall I let in the stranger, Shall I welcome the sailor, Or stay till the day I die? Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships, Hold you poison or grapes?”

— Dylan Thomas

42. “The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.”

— Dylan Thomas

43. “This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape’s joy.”

— Dylan Thomas

44. “A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill’s shoulder.”

— Dylan Thomas

45. “Reading one’s own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet’s tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.”

— Dylan Thomas

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— Dylan Thomas

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— Dylan Thomas

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— Dylan Thomas

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