I’m thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite.
“But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“the kind of love I love to fall into is the kind of love that’s most at home in the kitchen; a domestic kind of love; an intimate, easy, buttery kind of love.”
― In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
― In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”
― Daniel Deronda
― Daniel Deronda
“I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself.”
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