“ What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? ”
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“ After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person. ”
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“ If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… ”
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“ After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person. ”
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“ The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. ”
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“ I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end. ”
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“ No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that. ”
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“ The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. ”
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“ Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom. ”
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“ Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth...distribution of energy... ”
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“ We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them. ”
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“ That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. ”
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“ All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. ”
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“ If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to "a semi-official statement"; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as "a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable… ”
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“ If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to "a semi-official statement"; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as "a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable… ”
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“ If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. ”
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“ Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom. ”
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“ If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe. ”
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“ An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. ”
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“ She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. ”
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“ The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. ”
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“ It is a curious thing … that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ”
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“ News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead. ”
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“ There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. ”
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“ All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. ”
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“ It is a curious thing … that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ”
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“ That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. ”
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“ If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to "a semi-official statement"; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as "a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable… ”
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