“When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep”

Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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Mickey Spillane book The Snake

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About it
It's deep
How we found it
Sleep
I doubt it
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Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

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“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

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“And for your eyes my life takes poison slowly.”

Guillaume Apollinaire book Alcools

Et ma vie pour tes yeux lentement s'empoisonne
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