The sense of an entailed disadvantage—the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see
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“I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.”
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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― The Go-Between
― The Go-Between
“The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.”
― The Wings of the Dove: Authoritative Text, the Author and the Novel, Criticism
― The Wings of the Dove: Authoritative Text, the Author and the Novel, Criticism
“Listen: this world is the lunatic's sphere,
Don't always agree it's real,
Even with my feet upon it
And the postman knowing my door
My address is somewhere else.”
― The Gift
Don't always agree it's real,
Even with my feet upon it
And the postman knowing my door
My address is somewhere else.”
― The Gift
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