“Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.”
― The Heart of the Matter
― The Heart of the Matter
“They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.”
― The Heart of the Matter
― The Heart of the Matter
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