"Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods."

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Georg Brandes

#Summer Quotes #Picnics Quotes #Woods Quotes

“As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.”
“Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.”

Source : Murasaki Shikibu (1936*). “The tale of Genji: a novel”
“The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.”
“Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.”
“Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.”
“I'd like to do a really masculine film.”
“I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.”
“A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.”

Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

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