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“He had always been irreproachable in his conduct, and as a consequence, his capacity for empathy was small.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
“There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.”
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“I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.”
― All Fall Down
― All Fall Down
“Disdain was useful. It gave him a fixed sense of proportion, a rightfulness to which he could appeal, and feel secure.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
“In his person Gascoigne showed a curious amalgam of classes, high and low. He had cultivated his mind with the same grave discipline with which he now maintained his toilette—which is to say, according to a method that was sophisticated, but somewhat out of date.
He held the kind of passion for books and learning that only comes when one has pursued an education on one’s very own—but it was a passion that, because its origins were both private and virtuous, tended towards piety and scorn. His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the future, and profoundly regretful of the world’s decay.
As a whole, he put one in mind of a well-preserved old gentleman (in fact he was only thirty-four) in a period of comfortable, but perceptible, decline—a decline of which he was well aware, and which either amused him or turned him melancholy, depending on his moods.”
― The Luminaries
He held the kind of passion for books and learning that only comes when one has pursued an education on one’s very own—but it was a passion that, because its origins were both private and virtuous, tended towards piety and scorn. His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the future, and profoundly regretful of the world’s decay.
As a whole, he put one in mind of a well-preserved old gentleman (in fact he was only thirty-four) in a period of comfortable, but perceptible, decline—a decline of which he was well aware, and which either amused him or turned him melancholy, depending on his moods.”
― The Luminaries
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