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“One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.”

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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

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If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

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“My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your…

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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

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“Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper”

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“The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.”

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“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.”

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