“O God, make me good, but not yet.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
― A Room With A View
― A Room With A View
“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
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