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“My first impulse is always to behave, about everything, as if I feared complications. But I don't fear them— I really like them. They're quite my element.”
― Henry James, The Golden Bowl

“He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would be full of machinery, which was the antidote to superstition ...”
― Henry James, The Golden Bowl

“It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games”
― Henry James, The Golden Bowl

“Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome

“… that exasperating quality for which we have no name, which certainly is not accuracy, and which is quite the opposite of judgement, yet which catches the mind as brambles do our clothes.”
― Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome

“Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.”
― Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution

“A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on other occasions.”
― Iris Murdoch, Under the Net

“The sense of belonging together had been deeper than love.”
― Olivia Manning, The Danger Tree