Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.
タグ: knowledge

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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
タグ: curiosity, age, wisdom, sad
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
タグ: successful, clever, war, beautiful
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
タグ: like, more, you, life
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
タグ: he, child, end, dark
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
タグ: sentiment, call, share
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