Margaret Drabble - A Summer Bird-Cage (1962)

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Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

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I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

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How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

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Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations.

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And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.

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