Anthony Powell - The Acceptance World (1955)

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He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.

Anthony Powell

Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed 'only two dramatic features—the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy'.

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All women are stimulated by the news that any wife has left any husband.

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There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

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In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with the most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame.

Anthony Powell

For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.

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