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• One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it…
• Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which…
• Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the…
• The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
• I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.
• In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended…
• Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.
• Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly…
• The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity…
• Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
• Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be…
• It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to…

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