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for a relation such as theirs cannot break without transforming both men for ever.
E.M. Forster • Maurice: A Novel
This is what happens to a man who was made for a great love and not a suit when he does not feel the love. He closes in. He becomes weary. On the bus he looked out of the top-deck windows and saw less of life and felt less sturdy, less sexy, less rich. He was beginning to forget his magnificence. A darkness was coming down over his face like the pu
... See moreDiana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
Mr Brooke’s conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions, and that he would spend as little money as possible in carrying them out. For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about all his own interests exce
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
laid bare the eternal monotony of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language.
Gustave Flaubert • Madame Bovary
Their most tragic figure is that of the man who is already free of all those ills he had, and is only asking to be allowed to fly to others that he knows not of.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
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Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
“I like short hair best.” “Why?” “Because I can stroke it—” and he began to cry.
E.M. Forster • Maurice: A Novel
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