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“Self-doubt was a luxury, as, perhaps, was the examined life. And yet the examined life, as the adage had it, was the only life worth living.”
― The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth
― The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth
“Music and art and philosophy are ultimately based on the premise that this man on his tractor, and these pigs, and the swarms of bees that fertilise the crops, will all continue to do what they do.”
― The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth
― The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth
“You remember how he would trust strangers, and if they fooled him he would say: ‘It’s better to be fooled than to be suspicious’—that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.”
― Howards End
― Howards End
“She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic life, but she had never thought it would be enough for her. Yet it was.”
― The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth
― The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth
“But she realised that this was what anxiety was like—it knew no rhyme or reason; just as a fear of the dark cannot be assuaged by the pointing out that there was nothing there, anxiety could be without foundation.”
― The Charming Quirks of Others
― The Charming Quirks of Others
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