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To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.
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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.
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reading
necessities
treasures
spiritual-life
purpose-of-life
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Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.
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Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.
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Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.
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madness
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Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
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Penelope Fitzgerald |
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She had a kind heart, though that is not of much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.
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There isn't one kind of happiness, there's all kinds. Decision is torment for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the things you might have done and now never can.
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Courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested.
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Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.
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Penelope Fitzgerald |
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She did not know that morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.
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More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the sky is blue to give us an idea of the infinite. And that blood is red so that murder will be more easily detected and criminals will be brought to justice. Yes, and I believe that I shall live forever, but I shall live without reason.
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Penelope Fitzgerald |
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human beings interested her so much that it must always be an advantage to meet another one.
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What seemed delicacy in him was usually a way of avoiding trouble; what seemed like sympathy was the instinct to prevent trouble before it started. It was hard to see what growing older would mean to such a person. His emotions, from lack of exercise, had disappeared almost altogether. Adaptability and curiosity, he had found, did just as well.
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But we weren't meant to live alone,' said Frank. 'Life makes its own corrections.
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Tilda cared nothing for the future, and had, as a result, a great capacity for happiness.
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Penelope Fitzgerald |
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Florence had noticed one or two eccentricities in herself lately, which might be the result of hard work, or of age, or of living alone. When the letters came, for example, she often found herself wasting time in looking at the postmarks and wondering whoever they could be from, instead of opening them in a sensible manner and finding out at once.
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Penelope Fitzgerald |
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There's two ways to be selfish. You can think too much about yourself, or you can think too little about others. You're selfish both ways.
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If there's even one person who might be hurt by a decision, you should never make it.
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How could the wind be so strong, so far inland, that cyclists coming into the town in the late afternoon looked more like sailors in peril? This was on the way into Cambridge, up Mill Road past the cemetery and the workhouse. On the open ground to the left the willow-trees had been blown, driven and cracked until their branches gave way and lay about the drenched grass, jerking convulsively and trailing cataracts of twigs. The cows had gone..
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I would bear it for her if I could.
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pain
philosophy
wasted-time
wishing
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I have read Lolita, as you requested. It is a good book, and therefore you should try to sell it to the inhabitants of Hardborough. They won't understand it, but that is all to the good. Understanding makes the mind lazy.
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All distances are the same to those who don't meet.
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Old age is not the same thing as historical interest,' he said. 'Otherwise we should both of us be more interesting than we are.
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The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it's like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.
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Would you consider what I call the "inner eye" which opens for some of us, though not always when we want it or expect it - would you consider the inner eye as one of the sensory nerves?"
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Dicen por ahi que esta usted a punto de abrir una libreria. Eso significa que no le importa enfrentarse a cosas inverosimiles. (...) - ?Por que cree que abrir una libreria es inverosimil? -le grito al viento-. ?La gente de Hardoborough no quiere comprar libros? - Han perdido el deseo por las cosas raras -dijo Raven mientras seguia limando-. Se venden mas arenques ahumados, por ejemplo que truchas estan medio ahumadas y tienen un sabor mas ..
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It was defeat, but defeat is less unwelcome when you are tired.
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Her courage, after all, was only a determination to survive. The
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Richard was the kind of man who has two clean handkerchiefs on him at half past three in the morning.
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Penelope Fitzgerald |
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They started with Big Ben. It's always got to be relayed direct from Westminster, the real thing, never from disc. That's got to be firmly fixed in the listeners' minds. Then, if Big Ben is silent, the public will know that the war has taken a distinctly unpleasant turn.
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The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such, more like crustaceans, specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature, but still clinging to their old habitat, sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore. But under the ground they were half rusted away. Dreadnought's anchor had come up easily enough when the salvage tug came to dispose of her. The mud which held so tenaciously could also give way in a moment, if conditi..
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I enjoy very little leisure in the evenings. But don't misunderstand me, I find a good book at my bedside of incalculable value. When I eventually retire I've no sooner read a few pages than I'm overwhelmed with sleep.
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se habia enganado a si misma al dejarse convencer, por un momento, de que los seres humanos no se dividen en exterminadores y exterminados, y que los exterminadores tienden a colocarse en la situacion dominante en cuanto pueden. La fuerza de voluntad es inutil si no se va a algun lado.
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She ought to go down to the beach. It was Thursday, early closing, and it seemed ungrateful to live so close to the sea and never look at it for weeks on end.
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english-humor
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No debo preocuparme --dijo ella--. Mientras hay vida, hay esperanza. --Que idea tan terrible
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La valentia de ella, al fin y al cabo, no era otra cosa que su determinacion por sobrevivir.
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Penelope Fitzgerald |
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Um bom livro e o precioso sangue vital de um espirito mestre, embalsamado e entesourado de proposito para uma vida para la da vida.
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Annie - although she also knew that those who don't speak have to pay it off in thinking - was resolved on silence. Whatever happened, and after all she was obliged to see Mr brooks two or three times every day, though she by no means looked forward to it, feeling herself more truly alive when she could picture him steadily without seeing him - whatever happened, he needn't know how daft she was.
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Her view of the world was that it divided into 'exterminators' and 'exterminatees'. She would say: 'I am drawn to people who seem to have been born defeated or even profoundly lost.' She was a humorous writer with a tragic sense of life.
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Penelope Fitzgerald |
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Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.
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Penelope Fitzgerald |
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Not to succeed in one thing is to fail in all.' Far more frightening than any poltergeist is the spectre of loneliness in old age.
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Penelope Fitzgerald |
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She had once seen a heron flying across the estuary and trying, while it was on the wing, to swallow an eel which it had caught. The eel, in turn, was struggling to escape from the gullet of the heron and appeared a quarter, a half, or occasionally three-quarters of the way out. The indecision expressed by both creatures was pitiable. They had taken on too much.
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struggle
success
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Penelope Fitzgerald |
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He said, aloud, 'The external world is the world of shadows. It throws its shadows into the kingdom of light. How different they will appear when this darkness is gone and the shadow-body has passed away. The universe, after all, is within us. The way leads inward, always inwards.
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meditation
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