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My vice is really things. It took me a while to understand this, but you can enjoy all these things without owning them. Even though this may sometimes seem quite hard to do, training yourself to enjoy only looking at things, instead of
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“I watched too, with that sort of lonely delight--the one shadow upon it being that it is so lonely--with which all one's life one is accustomed to watch beautiful and vanishing things.”
― An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall
― An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall
“He loved Elspeth so much, and he hoped that she knew it. Yet it occurred to him that she might not be sure of that because he had not told her – or at least he had not told her recently. Wives and husbands, it seemed to him, did not say that sort of thing: it was all left unsaid – assumed, perhaps, but not spelled out. That was the problem with life in general – we slipped into a rut in which we failed to state what we meant by the things we did. Our lives, Matthew thought, can become like silent films without the subtitles.”
― The Enigma of Garlic
― The Enigma of Garlic
“One might forget so many exotic cheeses, he thought, but the memory of cheddar always remained. "Should one be embarrassed by choosing cheddar every time?" he asked. Matthew laughed. "There's no need to apologize for simple things." "But is cheddar simple?" Domenica enquired. "Just because there's a lot of it, does that make it simple?”
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“It was the beauty of the country before them that had done it. Scotland was a place of attenuated light, of fragility, of a beauty that broke the heart.”
― Love in the Time of Bertie
― Love in the Time of Bertie
“If I have been more backward in seeking her society, it is because I do not like her, and my acquaintance amongst those whom I do like is sufficiently extensive.”
― Traits of Nature
― Traits of Nature
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