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the atmosphere of a better age

'But my dear Sebastian, you can't seriously believe it all.' ‘Can’t I?’ ‘I mean about Christmas and the star and the three kings and the ox and the ass.’ ‘Oh yes, I believe that. It’s a lovely idea.’ ‘But you can’t believe things because they’re a lovely idea.’ ‘But I do. That’s how I believe.’ – Charles and Sebastian, Brideshead Revisted, Evelyn Waugh. Bk.I, ch.4 P:63
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." Leo Tolstoy,  Anna Karenina
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...a new shudder, a new thrill.

"Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it." Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal (1857)
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All visible objects, man, are but pasteboard masks, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside, except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall

“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” ―  Herman Melville ,  Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
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