CongaïCosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1927 - 320 pages |
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Page 14 - Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually. Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue as you will. But be drunken.
Page 136 - Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. ... I confess to Almighty God and to you, Father, that I have sinned.