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- There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's… Across
- There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all… All
- Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret… Allowance
- what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world… Any
- One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. Attracted
- It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is… Best
- Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same… Architecture
- The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful… Architect
- It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our… Adjusting
- There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power… Analogous
- It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought… Acknowledge
- The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be… Bureaucracy
- We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a… Able
- Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries… Across
- We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in… Allow
- Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts. Bringing
- The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected… Beautiful
- What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their… Beauty
- Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not… Anxiety
- People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are… Accorded
- Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a… Alone
- He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer… Advisor
- To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity. Ear
- He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing… Ability
- It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in… Achievement
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