The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. (Laura Marling)

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

Laura Marling

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