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When Jane Austen wrote, 'There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.' and when
Nietzsche said, ' It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.'
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"The world is entire, and I am outside of it, crying, ‘Oh, save me, from being blown for ever outside the loop of time!"
Excerpts from "The Waves," by Virginia Woolf
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"I didn't know anything really, which is a strangely wonderful position to be in. Everything that lay before me was new and mysterious and exciting in a way you can't imagine. England was full of words I'd never heard before streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet. I didn't know how to pronounce `scone' or `pasty' or `Towcester' or `Slough'. I had never heard of Tesco's, Perthshire or Denbighshire, council houses, Morecambe and Wise, railway cuttings, Christmas crackers, bank holidays, seaside rock, milk floats, trunk calls, Scotch eggs, Morris Minors and Poppy Day. For all I knew, when a car had an L-plate on the back of it, it indicated that it was being driven by a leper. I didn't have the faintest idea what GPO, LBW, GLC or OAPstood for. I was positively radiant with ignorance.
Notes From a Small Island
By Bill Bryson
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