Hope Mirrlees Quotes

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• In [man's] mouth is ever the bittersweet taste of life and death, unknown to the trees. Without respite he is dragged by the two wild…
• There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.
• The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one…
• A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.
• Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives…
• Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we…

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