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“Connell wished he knew how other people conducted their private lives, so that he could copy from example.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”
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“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.”
― Murder in the Cathedral
― Murder in the Cathedral
“To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.”
― The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
― The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
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