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“German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.”
― Pygmalion
― Pygmalion
“While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I”
― A Circle of Quiet
― A Circle of Quiet
“We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words — to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
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