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“So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
― Absalom and Achitophel
― Absalom and Achitophel
“Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.”
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“He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
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