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"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."
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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
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"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
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"Good God. Men everywhere."
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"As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked."
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"He reads much;He is a great observer and he looksQuite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spiritThat could be moved to smile at any thing.Such men as he be never at heart's easeWhiles they behold a greater than themselves,And therefore are they very dangerous."
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"Society in its boundless ignorance ridicules the caterpillar but praises the butterfly."
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"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
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"Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London."
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"I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights."
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"Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful."
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"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion."
Love
"I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself."
Strength
"Being gifted needs courage."
Courage
"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother."
Family
"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."
Attention
"I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values."
Home
"But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both."
Christian
"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour."
Time
"That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems."
Time
"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it."
Friendship
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