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“While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea”
― Howards End
― Howards End
“Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.”
― A Wild Sheep Chase
― A Wild Sheep Chase
“Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.”
― The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
― The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
“People died of carelessness, of corruption, of abuse, and yet, in every round of voting, gave their enthusiastic approval to the politicians who made their life unbearable.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.”
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