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"Though essentially autocratic, her subjects were allowed and even encouraged to develop their own minds on their own lines, provided always that those lines met at the junction where she was station-master." — Nov 15, 2016 12:28AM
"Though essentially autocratic, her subjects were allowed and even encouraged to develop their own minds on their own lines, provided always that those lines met at the junction where she was station-master." — Nov 15, 2016 12:28AM
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![Penelope Fitzgerald](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1425224738i/3222._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Bookshop
― The Bookshop
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“Men telde drie verschijningen: de storm, de walvis en de heilige op de hondenkar. Volgens sommigen echter waren het er vier: de storm, de walvis, de heilige en de overstroming. Anderen kwamen tot vijf of zes of zeven -- en zo viel de waarheid in veelheid uiteen.”
― Zuidland
― Zuidland
![Robertson Davies](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1225671081i/23129._CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“The body is the inescapable factor, you see. You can keep in good shape for what you are, but radical change is impossible. Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal; it's living out the destiny of the body.”
― The Rebel Angels
― The Rebel Angels
![Joseph Conrad](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1403814208i/3345._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“That propensity of lifting every problem from the plane of the understandable by means of some sort of mystic expression, is very Russian. I knew her well enough to have discovered her scorn for all the practical forms of political liberty known to the western world. I suppose one must be a Russian to understand Russian simplicity, a terrible corroding simplicity in which mystic phrases clothe a naive and hopeless cynicism. I think sometimes that the psychological secret of the profound difference of that people consists in this, that they detest life, the irremediable life of the earth as it is, whereas we westerners cherish it with perhaps an equal exaggeration of its sentimental value. But this is a digression indeed....”
― Under Western Eyes
― Under Western Eyes
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“She often appeared at my chambers to talk over his lapses; for if, as she declared, she had washed her hands of him, she had carefully preserved the water of this ablution, which she handed about for analysis.”
― The Coxon Fund
― The Coxon Fund
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