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“But every Englishman is born with a certain power. When he wants a thing, he never tells himself he wants it. He waits until there comes to his mind, no one knows how, a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who possess the thing he wants … and then he grabs it. He is never at a loss for an effective moral attitude to take. When he wants a new market for his adulterated goods, he sends a missionary to teach the natives the gospel of peace. The natives kill the missionary, the Englishman flies to arms in defence of Christianity, fights for it, conquers for it, and takes the market as a reward from heaven.”
― Beer in the Snooker Club
― Beer in the Snooker Club
“How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection. And as soon as”
― Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
― Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
“I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.”
― Daughters of Darkness
― Daughters of Darkness
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