Auden Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“She found a deep sense of fitness in the fact that here, among people, they should be strangers; strangers and enemies. She thought, these…

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“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

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“Perhaps this was what it was to grow up: this realization that the world was already staffed with people and that one was not…

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“He was a simple guy. She was good, and she made the world better by being in it. She made his world a lot…

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“Like most children, she came into the world assuming everyone was good, and spent the rest of her life discovering otherwise.”

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“At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of…

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“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to…

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“There was nobody who could help her. Nobody in the world. They were all on something, mad, possible enemies, dead.”

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“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days…

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“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

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“She said we are all part of a secret club. Someday, she said, we will take over the earth. It will be people like…

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“But she did believe that the fundamentals of most people remained the same throughout their lifetimes. People who were generous usually remained generous, unless…

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