Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. - Elizabeth Bowen

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[U]ntruths are thieves, robbing us of a birthright.

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I am sick of the governessy attitude of our age, which is coming to be more genuinely presumptuous, nosier and more busybody than the Victorian.

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And yet in a way I would rather fail point blank. Things one can do have no value. I don't mind feeling small myself, but I dread finding the world is.

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