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When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time – the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet
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“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
― Love and Living
― Love and Living
“If you are as tired of reading this narrative as I am of writing it—Lord, how we shall enjoy ourselves on both sides a few pages further on!”
― The Moonstone
― The Moonstone
“...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilisation that made them.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the means of saving us.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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