“A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, / A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness — / Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it. How to Tell s Story
The skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Mrs. Dalloway
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” 1984
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