Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.
Anthony Powell
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One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
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