Quote #163
A bloody and a sudden end, Gunshot or a noose, For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.
More from William Butler Yeats
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- Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.