Nick Drake Short Quotes

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I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.

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Can love communicate over great distance? I could only hope so.

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We need strong, educated women to help us build a better world.

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For a world with so much sun we live in a dark place, in a dark time.

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It would be another day ruled by this world's new gods: gold and power.

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There is truth in what you say. Truth is a dangerous muse. One dies for the truth.

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I would much rather have a living husband with no job and no gold than a dead one.

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'There is no such thing as a cheerful poem [...] Happiness writes in water, not ink.'

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In these dark times people prefer to look away from everything they would rather not see.

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Fame is but a fruit tree
So very unsound
It can never flourish
Till its stalk is in the ground.

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Fear, that unknowable and all-powerful enemy, has invaded us all, like a secret army of shadows.

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You are like one of your bees, going from flower to flower, sampling the nectar of this and that.

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I dislike talk of the Gods, who taunt us with their promises, and whose disappointments we must always accept.

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I saw it written and I saw it say Pink moon is on its way And none of you stand so tall Pink moon's gonna get you all.

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For as I grow older, life seems to me simply an endless succession of problems to be solved, rather than hours to be enjoyed.

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Do intellect and morality count for nothing in the way the future unfolds? [...] Greed is our king, and corruption is his servant.

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And you must never speak of what I have just told you. For this is a great secret. And great secrets bring with them great responsibilities.

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'These ambassadors are all the same. They have the eyes of Anubis. And they make me feel like a servant. Like a shabti in a tomb. Here I am. I will do it! '

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Death makes us strangers to ourselves... Do not indulge yourself in a self-pitying, self-gratifying revenge. More than likely you would simply end up dead as well.

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This world and the Otherworld are full of curiosities and mysteries. It would take many lifetimes to understand them all. And disappointingly, it seems to me we only have one.

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Be careful, Rahotep, I know these writers, they say borrow when they mean steal. You will soon read your words coming back to you on some privately circulated scroll of new verse.

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Once wine was the means to artificial happiness; now things are much more sophisticated, and what was one of the great secrets of medicine has become the only bliss many find in this life.

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Cruelty, rage, grief — and something others carelessly name evil — can reduce the strange collation of profanity and beauty which makes up each of us to an inanimate lump of decaying meat.

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