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Linking in with the influences section I've made, I thought it a good idea to make a section dedicated to some of the things in this world that make me tick and that have, in short, influenced me to be the person I am today. Please follow the links in the sidebar to the relevant sections for Books, Albums and other miscellaneous items that I have thought to include.
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.