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(...) Sir Boris had fought and killed the Paynim; Sir Gawain, the Turk; Sir Miles, the Pole; Sir Andrew, the Frank; Sir Richard, the Austrian; Sir Jor...more

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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

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For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

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The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who ...more

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If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.

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These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as ...more

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The motor car with its blinds drawn and an air of inscrutable reserve proceeded towards Piccadilly, still gazed at, still ruffling the faces on both s...more

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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you...more

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We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In the thin, the unreal twilight, fitfully like the ech...more

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I must be able to say, 'Percival, a ridiculous name'. At the same time let me tell you, men and women, hurrying to the tube station, you would have ha...more

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It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures standing with their backs against the wi...more

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It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven...