“These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“To understand all is to forgive all.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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