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The Return
Walter de la Mare
Top 10 Best Quotes
“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...”
“God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.”
“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.”
“He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.”
“An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.”
“What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.”
“It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.”
“Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life.”
“Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.”
“We are *all* we are, and all in a sense we care to dream we are. And for that matter, anything outlandish, bizarre, is a godsend in this rather stodgy life. It is after all just what the old boy said – it's only the impossible that's credible; whatever credible may mean...”
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