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The Brandons
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Delia was born four years later, and Mrs Brandon, wrapped up in her nursery, was only beginning to feel ruffled by her husband’s dullness when death with kindly care removed him through the agency of pneumonia.
“It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“He was a very stupid and very self-satisfied and very healthy and very well-washed man, and nothing else.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days;”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
“What an idle time it was! What an insubstantial, happy, foolish time it was!”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
“Who will not change a raven for a dove?”
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
― A Midsummer Night's Dream
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