“ An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do. ”
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“ He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it. ”
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“ Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every day. One's lucky to be able to put his hand on the one that's wanted, let alone know it. ”
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“ When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ”
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“ Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. ”
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“ But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. ”
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“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”
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“ When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ”
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“ An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible. ”
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“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”
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“ If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ”
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“ Language is an archeological vehicle… the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. ”
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“ Language is an archeological vehicle… the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. ”
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“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”
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“ If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ”
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“ Language is an archeological vehicle… the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. ”
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“ An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible. ”
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“ Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. ”
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“ If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ”
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“ But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. ”
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“ Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone. ”
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“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”
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“ But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. ”
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“ But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. ”
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“ Language is an archeological vehicle… the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. ”
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“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”
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“ But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. ”
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“ Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone. ”
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