Barbara Pym - Love Quotes

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Oh how absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself! Everybody should try it.

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I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

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I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

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Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more than a casual glance, that they were loved and admired and desired when they were worthy of none of these things - enabling them to preen themselves and puff out their plumage like birds and bask in the sunshine of love, real or imagined, it didn't matter which.

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