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“But our own present was forever tugging at one like a hound which nothing could quiet, and racing along the form straight arrow of road towards the capital I would once more become aware of the thousand preoccupations of office waiting for me, and the noisy contentions of demagogues and illiterates which had begun to fill the empty theatre of world affairs with the shrill waspish voice of the times - nationalism.
— May 29, 2023 02:13PM
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Barbara Adde
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“I used to walk about its grassy galleries with my friends or duty-companions, enjoying the silence which grows up between sentences utters among the ruins of time; and conscious that one day our history must touch and marry its own, to join the great confluence of tides which meet forever at the point where present meets the past in a death-embrace.”
— May 29, 2023 02:09PM
Barbara Adde
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“We had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time — those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.”
— May 19, 2023 04:47PM
Barbara Adde
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“…he was an agreeable man, rotund and sleek, with a costly set of dimples round his smile - like expensive cuff-links in a well-laundered shirt.”
— May 19, 2023 04:32PM
Barbara Adde
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“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection…”
— May 19, 2023 04:13PM
