“People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.”
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
Love is always being given where it is not required.
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.