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"Comfort came in with the middle classes."
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"If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be."
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"On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, "I'm awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless. And then you grinned at me and said, "That's okay."
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"The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life."
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"There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer."
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"It is in the coldest months that hugs linger snug, and they warm the soul the most."
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"Nobody objected to live in prisonif already felt comfortable living in it."
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"Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand."
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"Winston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading, in comfort and safety. He was alone: no telescreen, no ear at the keyhole, no nervous impulse to glance over his shoulder or cover the page with his hand. The sweet summer air played against his cheek. From somewhere far away there floated the faint shouts of children: in the room itself there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock. He settled deeper into the arm-chair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss, it was eternity."
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"When I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns."
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"I love the magic of a hot bath, how time pauses and every grievance melts away."
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"I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic."
Emotional
"A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind."
Art
"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open."
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"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."
Reality
"Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age."
Age
"It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal."
Art
"We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves."
Art
"Comfort came in with the middle classes."
Comfort
"Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class."
Mistake
"We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it."
Art
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