"There is a thing called knowledge of the……" — T.H. White
"There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws which are constant. It has no rules. Only, in the long years which bring women to the middle of life, a sense of balance develops…when she is beginning to hate her used body, she suddenly finds that she can do it. She can go on living…"
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80 Quotes by T.H. White
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Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust,…
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Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness,…
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Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be…
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The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his…
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The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.
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Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
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