Going away Quote by Elizabeth von Arnim

“... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.”

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“I would have all couples neatly paired in years, the forties with the forties, and the twenties with the twenties. Should the forties, as sometimes happens, not care about other forties, and wish to frequent twenties, in their own interests they should be discouraged, and equally those twenties should be discouraged who, with the inexperience of their age, suppose they…

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“When I drive to the lupins and see them all spread out as far as eye can reach in perfect beauty of colour and scent and bathed in the mild August sunshine, I feel I must send for somebody to come and look at them with me, and talk about them to me, and share in the pleasure; and when…

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What a blessing it is to love books.

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It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

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“I asked nothing better of life. I still ask nothing better of life. Strange to say—for surely it is strange not to have increased one’s claims, during the passage from youth to maturity?—these very things, just sun on my face, the feel of spring round the corner, and nobody anywhere in sight except a dog, are still enough to fill…

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“No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice,…

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“The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from…

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“She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I…

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“This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going on for…

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“And when I'm with you," she said, "I feel as if I were stuffed with—oh, with stars.”

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“Here was the world wide-awake and yet only for me, all the fresh pure air only for me, all the fragrance breathed only by…

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The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September.

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I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi…

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How can I ever miss you when you never go away?

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I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle…

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There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth spurts or lose weight or stop wearing high heels. You keep fitting after you have children or change religions or stop dyeing your hair or quit your job at Goldman Sachs and take up farming.…

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When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

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There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and…

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I think it would be great to be a cat! You come and go as you please. People always feed and pet you. They…

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If you're going to run for president as the anti-Clinton, you should know that Democrats and their media friends will do whatever it takes to make you look Clintonian. The questions won't go away because Democrats are desperate to define Republican deviancy down to Clinton levels. The ugliness is just getting started.

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