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“But you can't believe things because they're a lovely idea."
"But I do. That's how I believe.”
― Brideshead Revisited
"But I do. That's how I believe.”
― Brideshead Revisited
“Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Masses of work awaited him. Nothing had changed in his life. Nothing remained in it. He was back with his loneliness as it had been before Clive, as it was after Clive, and would now be forever. He had failed, and that wasn't the saddest: he had seen Alec fail. In a way they were one person. Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.”
― Maurice
― Maurice
“Did you have a "little talk" with mummy?'
'Yes.'
'Have you gone over to her side?'
The day before I would have said: 'There aren't two sides'; that day I said, 'No, I'm with you, "Sebastian contra mundum.”
― Brideshead Revisited
'Yes.'
'Have you gone over to her side?'
The day before I would have said: 'There aren't two sides'; that day I said, 'No, I'm with you, "Sebastian contra mundum.”
― Brideshead Revisited
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