William Boyd Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.”
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“It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.”
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“Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.”
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“I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.”
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“I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.”
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“The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.”
-- William Boyd
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