"First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain."

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Source : Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton

Angela Thirkell

#Love Quotes #Pain Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.”
“The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.”
“As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.”
“A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.”
“When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.”
“There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book”
“Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.”
“To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.”

Source : K W Jeter (2011). “Infernal Devices”, p.49, Duncan Baird Publishers

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