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| Anthony Powell
Books do furnish a room. Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.Self-love seems so often unrequited.Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.The men at work at the corner of the street had made a kind of camp for themselves, where, marked out by tripods hung with red hurricane-lamps, an abyss in the road led down to a network of subterranean drain-pipes. |
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