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Anthony Powell Quote: “He delayed entry for a brief period, pressing the edge of the door against his head, the other side of which touched the wall: rigid, as if imprisoned in a cruel trap specially designed to catch him and his like: some ingenious snare, savage in mechanism, though at the same time calculated to preserve from injury the skin of such rare creatures.”

201. “He delayed entry for a brief period, pressing the edge of the door against his head, the other side of which touched the wall: rigid, as if imprisoned in a cruel trap specially designed to catch him and his like: some ingenious snare, savage in mechanism, though at the same time calculated to preserve from injury the skin of such rare creatures.”

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Anthony Powell Quote: “Wit, shrewdness about other aspects of life, grasp of the arts, fundamental good nature, none seemed any help in solving his emotional problems; to some extent these qualities, as displayed by him, were even a hindrance.”

202. “Wit, shrewdness about other aspects of life, grasp of the arts, fundamental good nature, none seemed any help in solving his emotional problems; to some extent these qualities, as displayed by him, were even a hindrance.”

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Anthony Powell Quote: “Daydreams of wealth or women must have given Carolo that faraway look which never left him; sad and silent, he contemplated huge bank balances and voluptuous revels.”

203. “Daydreams of wealth or women must have given Carolo that faraway look which never left him; sad and silent, he contemplated huge bank balances and voluptuous revels.”

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Anthony Powell Quote: “In leaving behind the kind of shell common to all undergraduates, indeed to most young men, they had, in one sense, taken more definite shape by each establishing conspicuously his own individual identity, thereby automatically drawing farther apart from each other.”

204. “In leaving behind the kind of shell common to all undergraduates, indeed to most young men, they had, in one sense, taken more definite shape by each establishing conspicuously his own individual identity, thereby automatically drawing farther apart from each other.”

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Anthony Powell Quote: “It is, indeed, strange how often persons, living in other respects quite unobjectively, can suddenly become acutely objective about some specific concern of their own.”

205. “It is, indeed, strange how often persons, living in other respects quite unobjectively, can suddenly become acutely objective about some specific concern of their own.”

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Anthony Powell Quote: “Since the baby had died, they had had no other child.”

206. “Since the baby had died, they had had no other child.”

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Anthony Powell Quote: “I felt that, if we could avoid seeing each other for long enough, any questions of sentiment – so often deprecated by Barbara herself – could be allowed quietly to subside, and take their place in those niches of memory especially reserved for abortive emotional entanglements of that particular kind.”

207. “I felt that, if we could avoid seeing each other for long enough, any questions of sentiment – so often deprecated by Barbara herself – could be allowed quietly to subside, and take their place in those niches of memory especially reserved for abortive emotional entanglements of that particular kind.”

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Anthony Powell Quote: “I was somewhat put out to find that recurrent projections in the mind of the images of either of them, Jean or Suzette, did not in the least exclude that of the other. That was when I began to suspect that being in love might be a complicated affair.”

208. “I was somewhat put out to find that recurrent projections in the mind of the images of either of them, Jean or Suzette, did not in the least exclude that of the other. That was when I began to suspect that being in love might be a complicated affair.”

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Anthony Powell Quote: “One’s capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.”

209. “One’s capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.”

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Anthony Powell Quote: “Some persons feel drawn towards those who dislike them, or are at least determined to overcome opposition of that sort.”

210. “Some persons feel drawn towards those who dislike them, or are at least determined to overcome opposition of that sort.”

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Anthony Powell Quote: “One’s associations with people are regulated as much by what they stand for, as by what they are, individual characteristics becoming from time to time submerged in more general implications.”

211. “One’s associations with people are regulated as much by what they stand for, as by what they are, individual characteristics becoming from time to time submerged in more general implications.”

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Anthony Powell Quote: “My father will be filled with frank astonishment that I should be proving myself capable of earning a living in any capacity whatsoever.”

212. “My father will be filled with frank astonishment that I should be proving myself capable of earning a living in any capacity whatsoever.”

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Anthony Powell Quote: “Senile decay seemed already to have laid its hand on him while he was still in the grip of arrested development.”

213. “Senile decay seemed already to have laid its hand on him while he was still in the grip of arrested development.”

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