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She is not sailing into the dark: the voyage is over, and under the dark escort of Alzheimer's she has arrived somewhere. So have I.

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The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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John Bayley

John Bayley

Born: March 27, 1925
Died: January 12, 2015 (aged 89)
Bio: John Oliver Bayley was a British literary critic and writer. He was Warton Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1974 to 1992.
Known for:
  1. Elegy for Iris (1999)
  2. Iris and Her Friends (2000)
  3. Widower's House (2001)
  4. An Essay on Hardy (1978)

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