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Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses, he did not believe in islands, he di...more

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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

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Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.

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Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more a...more

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You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their plac...more

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The river of life, of mysterious laws and mysterious choice, flows past a deserted embankment; and along that other deserted embankment Charles now be...more

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Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.

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It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, cou...more

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So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, sinc...more