If by the time we are 60 we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and bad are mingled in every action we take, we haven't grown old to much purpose.- John Cowper Powys, born on this date in 1872
Here is a fine appreciation of Powys by Margaret Drabble: The English degenerate. I think his autobiography is a masterpiece. I read it at just the right time, in my mid-30s, when I was quite disillusioned with myself.
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