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Too late... everything's always too late.

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Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor games, but fed his boys well and saw that they did...more

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Conse­quently the Wolfenden recommendations will be indefinitely rejected, police prosecutions will continue and Clive on the bench will continue to ...more

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Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled

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-while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips and the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.

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The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly...more

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I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now--I can't hang about whining for ever--and he's mine in a way that shoc...more

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Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper w...more

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The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism. And the only advice I would off...more

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Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.

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He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across intellect, saying, "This is all very w...more

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The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.