“People look to education now in the same way as they once looked to religion. Are you save? Have you got your O-levels? It’s the same thing – salvation.”
― Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
― Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
― La vieillesse
― La vieillesse
“That man seems to have a particular talent for being on the spot whenever there is something picturesque to be done.”
― Nostromo
― Nostromo
“There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.”
― Nostromo
― Nostromo
“I have seen young boys in this village get married. They think it all bed, poor fellows. I see it quite different to this. I’m in no hurry at all. I must work. I mustn’t be worried or distracted. Not yet. I couldn’t spend time on my work if I was married.”
― Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
― Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
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