“You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“He lit his cigar and sat back at peace with the world; I, too, was at peace in another world than his. We both were happy. He talked of Julia and I heard his voice, unintelligible at a great distance, like a dog's barking miles away on a still night.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Here my last love had died.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips drift up into the branches.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds... I was struck less by his looks than by the fact that he was carrying a large teddy-bear".”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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