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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

by Claire Tomalin

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Park Avenue Summer by Renée Rosen

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like most infatuations, my affection was largely the product of my imagination.

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“There is something to be said for experiencing great art, or nature, by oneself; the absence of other people makes the enjoyment more pure, and one's perceptions grow acute and discerning.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

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“We performed in front of the camera with unabashed joy, as if we lived only for that moment. And in fact we had, for our work did not stand the test of time. Our images -- quite literally -- crumbled.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

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“. . . there was also something in me that felt contained there; that needed a different setting in which to grow. It was perhaps a mark of my arrogance and immaturity that I believed I had to leave in order to do so.”
― Nina Revoyr

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“For it is better -- is it not? -- to attempt to change things slowly than not to strive for progress at all.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

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“I didn't tell him the rest of what I knew -- that once you gave up even a little of yourself, it wasn't long before you gave up everything. But he'd learn that for himself soon enough.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

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