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“... the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.”
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“Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.”
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“She was totally without religious faith but said that there was no point in being afraid of death since she wouldn't be there when it happened. None of us, of course, will be there when it happens, but it's being there before it happens that is the worrying part and whether we shall be there with mind intact or imprisoned in some limbo of pain, degradation and dependence.”
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“The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a study, no city would appear better fixed than Florence, so richly dowered with both economic and spiritual vitality.”
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“To the land, she had given her mind and heart with the abandonment that she had found disastrous in any human relation.”
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“And there is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.”
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“... in her sensible way she was really attached to him, as one becomes attached to a bed, however uncomfortable, in which one has slept, or tried vainly to sleep, for more than fifty years.”
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“Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you miss the ordinary.”