“Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.”
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“To understand all is to forgive all.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“O God, make me good, but not yet.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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