Hope Mirrlees Quotes

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Pride and resentment are not indigenous in the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.

Hope Mirrlees

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

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Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

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Without respite he is dragged by the two wild horses, memory and hope; and he is tormented by a secret that he never can tell.

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There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.

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The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.

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