Cynthia Asquith Quotes

• Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.

  Cynthia Asquith

  People, Thirty, Born

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• I am beginning to rub my eyes at the prospect of peace. I think it will require more courage than anything that has gone before … One will have to look at long vistas again, instead of short ones, and one will at last fully recognise that the dead are not only dead for the duration of the war.

  Cynthia Asquith

  War, Eye, Thinking

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