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"Impressed with Lawrence's crisp, clear writing. He sometimes tries to cover too much in a confined space, making it hard to grasp context, but it's in part, I suspect, because the book is part travel log and local history as well as memoir.
I've had to use a dictionary several times, which doesn't often happen with many authors. I need a notebook and a WorldAtlas to keep track of the names and places." — Feb 05, 2018 08:48PM
"Impressed with Lawrence's crisp, clear writing. He sometimes tries to cover too much in a confined space, making it hard to grasp context, but it's in part, I suspect, because the book is part travel log and local history as well as memoir.
I've had to use a dictionary several times, which doesn't often happen with many authors. I need a notebook and a WorldAtlas to keep track of the names and places." — Feb 05, 2018 08:48PM
“Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.”
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“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― The Outsiders
― The Outsiders
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― Four Quartets
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― Four Quartets
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