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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotio...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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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