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“It’s strange how many people suffer from it. I don’t mean fear of closed spaces and fears of heights, but fear of death and what’s worse, fear of life”
― The Razor’s Edge
― The Razor’s Edge
“I prefer the simplicity of his mind to the false enlightenment of yours”
― The Devil's Pool and Other Stories
― The Devil's Pool and Other Stories
“Of course I was exaggerating. But it is agreeable sometimes to talk in primary colours even if you have to think in greys”
― The Mask of Dimitrios
― The Mask of Dimitrios
“Frightened by something in her own nature”
― Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny
― Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny
“the name of friend [amica] instead of wife would be dearer to her and more honourable for me--only love freely given should keep me for her, not the constriction of a marriage tie, and if we had to be parted for a time, we should find the joy of being together all the sweeter the rarer our meetings were.”
― The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
― The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
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