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“What seemed delicacy in him was usually a way of avoiding trouble; what seemed like sympathy was the instinct to prevent trouble before it started. It was hard to see what growing older would mean to such a person. His emotions, from lack of exercise, had disappeared almost altogether. Adaptability and curiosity, he had found, did just as well.”
― The Bookshop
― The Bookshop
“She often appeared at my chambers to talk over his lapses; for if, as she declared, she had washed her hands of him, she had carefully preserved the water of this ablution, which she handed about for analysis.”
― The Coxon Fund
― The Coxon Fund
“That propensity of lifting every problem from the plane of the understandable by means of some sort of mystic expression, is very Russian. I knew her well enough to have discovered her scorn for all the practical forms of political liberty known to the western world. I suppose one must be a Russian to understand Russian simplicity, a terrible corroding simplicity in which mystic phrases clothe a naive and hopeless cynicism. I think sometimes that the psychological secret of the profound difference of that people consists in this, that they detest life, the irremediable life of the earth as it is, whereas we westerners cherish it with perhaps an equal exaggeration of its sentimental value. But this is a digression indeed....”
― Under Western Eyes
― Under Western Eyes
“Men telde drie verschijningen: de storm, de walvis en de heilige op de hondenkar. Volgens sommigen echter waren het er vier: de storm, de walvis, de heilige en de overstroming. Anderen kwamen tot vijf of zes of zeven -- en zo viel de waarheid in veelheid uiteen.”
― Zuidland
― Zuidland
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