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a lot of life is lived in the neutral zone, a familiar garden, but a grey one, unremarkable, immediately forgotten, hard to describe.
“The mounted horse did not kill athletics. We run for joy.”
I sensed that many disappointments were heaped behind him. He was old enough to be my father and wanted for me what had eluded him.
extending forgiveness will require a feat of selfless concentration.
Later, electronics, even anthropology and especially a qualification in law were no substitutes for an education in the life of the mind. So, when good fortune offered the dreamlike opportunity, delivering me from my labours, such as they were, and stuffing me with gold, I was paralysed, inert. I’d wanted to be rich but never asked myself why. I had no ambitions beyond the erotic and an expensive house across the river. Others might have seized the chance to view at last the ruins of Leptis Magna or follow in Stevenson’s tracks across the Cévennes or write a monograph on Einstein’s musical
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There are occasions when one notices the motion of an object before one sees the thing itself. Instantly, the mind does a little colouring in, drawing on expectations, or probabilities. Whatever fits best. Something in the grass by a pond looks just like a frog, then resolves into a leaf stirred by the wind. In abstract, this was one of those moments. A thought darted past me, or through me, then it was gone, and I couldn’t trust what I thought I had seen.
More than a hundred celebrity non-payers, many of them actresses, were in prison and became martyrs.
“Our leaves are falling. Come spring we will renew, But you, alas, fall once.”
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This book liberally uses this word instead of "pry" and it bugged me.
