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As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!

W.N.P. Barbellion
Cutting, Rose, Dresses
W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.175, Penguin UK
As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!