Hearing these answers,
the deva was overflowing with joy.
Battersea Peace Pagoda, Battersea Park, Wandsworth, SW11
Then clasping hands, bowed down in respect and
disappeared suddenly from the presence of the Buddha.
From Paul Carus’ The Gospel of Buddha (1894)
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‘I come here to your beautiful country -’ Mr Raj saw through the window bare branches, coil after coil of dirty clouds, washing on neighbour lines, forlorn pecking birds, a distant brace of gasometers.
Regent's Canal, Haggerston, Tower Hamlets, E2
‘- your beautiful country, I say,’ he said defiantly.
Queenstown Road, Battersea, Wandsworth, SW8
‘…So far I have had mixed career. Fights and insults, complete lack of sexual sustenance – most necessary to men in prime of life – and inability to find accommodation commensurate with social position and academic attainments…’
Imperial Road, Hammersmith & Fulham, SW6
From Anthony Burgess’ The Right to an Answer (1960)
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I simply state that I’m a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation — with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.
Barbara Rich's Angel Wings, Liverpool Road, Islington, N1
Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones.
Battersea Park, Battersea, Wandsworth, SW11
I’ve thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult.
Colchester War Memorial, Cowdray Crescent, Colchester, Essex, CO1
One thing I know. If living isn’t seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.
From F Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise (1920)
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