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“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“She was, to him, a holy grace, far more powerful than any priest or nun. God lived in her eyes. That was how he had fallen for her—like a religious conversion. It had struck him the moment he’d seen her, a profound, eternal love, the kind that occurred by cause of fate, against reason.”
― Lapvona
― Lapvona
“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”
― Maurice
― Maurice
“Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It’s supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.”
“They are, they are.”
“But we’ve got our happiness in spite of them; here and now, we’ve taken possession of it. They can’t hurt us, can they?”
“Not tonight; not now.”
― Brideshead Revisited
“They are, they are.”
“But we’ve got our happiness in spite of them; here and now, we’ve taken possession of it. They can’t hurt us, can they?”
“Not tonight; not now.”
― Brideshead Revisited
“Then something altogether hideous happened. The thought was forced on me that no matter how coolly or sensibly or gracefully I might one day to learn to live my life, I would always at best be a visitor in a garden of enamel urinals and bedpans, with a sightless, wooden dummy-deity standing by in a marked-down rupture truss.”
― De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period
― De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period
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