“The advantage of living abroad is that, coming in contact with the manners and customs of the people among whom you live, you observe them from the outside and see that they have not the necessity which those who practice them believe. You cannot fail to discover that the beliefs which to you are self–evident to the foreigner are absurd.”
― Of Human Bondage: Original and Unabridged
― Of Human Bondage: Original and Unabridged
“by profession an observer of tones and gestures,”
― Guy Mannering
― Guy Mannering
“She loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Hope clouds observation.”
― Dune
― Dune
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