“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
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“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
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“You seduced a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks with her. You could not do that without living with her. You could not live with her without seducing her; but that was the by-product. The point is that you can't otherwise talk. You can't finish talks at street corners; in museums; even in drawing-rooms. You mayn't be in the mood when she is in the mood – for the intimate conversation that means the final communion of your souls. You have to wait together – for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained...and exhausted. So that...
That in effect was love.”
― Parade's End
That in effect was love.”
― Parade's End
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― The Hound of the Baskervilles
― The Hound of the Baskervilles
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