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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

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It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - it is one damn thing over and over.

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Second Fig

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

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First Fig

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light.

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My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay in A Few Figs from Thistles (1920)Report problemRelated quotes
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

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