“No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.”
― Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
― Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“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
“To understand all is to forgive all.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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