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A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you can only gain a true knowledge of him by inferences from little actions, of which he is unconscious, and from fleeting expressions, which cross his face unknown to him. Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. But in his book or his pict..
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To the acute observer no one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul.
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I tried to picture to myself the mosque before the Christians laid their desecrating hands upon it.
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Oh, don't talk rot. You will marry me, won't you? -D'you think we should be happy? -No. But what does that matter? (471)
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Philip knew very little about women, or he would have been aware that one should accept their most transparent lies. (442)
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