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“We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.”
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“There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author’s back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.”
― The Jane Austen Book Club
― The Jane Austen Book Club
“What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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