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"Typhoid and swans- it all comes from the same place"

"But at the same time I knew that whatever people say and whatever they put up with and whatever they get away with, love should be simple"

"I want to feel that the world is hard enough to withstand knocks as well as to inflict them"

"Death too can be a woman, with a skull, misleadingly handsome. Death can menace the mother with the child, can invade the comfortable dwelling of the merchant, can interrupt the miser counting his gold or the scholar in his study; can waylay the bridegroom and his bride; can attend the wedding feast. Death, wearing crown, his bony feet on a globe, holds a glass inscribed with the words, The mirror that flatters not"

"I'd rather say something else. But of course, without the legitimacy of a flashy title at a blue-chip company, I wouldn't have a platform to say anything at all. Any value my words have in this country is derived from my association with its institutions: universities, banks, government. I can only repeat their words and hope to convey a kind of truth. Perhaps that's a poor justification for my own complicity"

Jesus wept. How overwritten is this novel.

"Catherine was slight but physically reckless; what drew boys to her often frightened them away. Nick, in his secret innocence, felt a certain respect for her experience with men; to have so many failures required a high rate of preliminary success"

It's giving unhealthy obsession with her 'brilliant'
friend

"It's an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self- never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action"

Can't wait to be done with this one to be honest.