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“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
― Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
― Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
Classics and the Western Canon
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