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“Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”
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“Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
“It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality
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“Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
Classics and the Western Canon
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