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Don't be a martyr to your imagination.
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book collecting is only meaningful if it’s personal,” Oscar clarified. “If it’s just another way of accumulating wealth instead of for the books themselves it isn’t right. Collectors are trying to protect themselves. To separate themselves. It’s a hierarchy.
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You might want to consider the whole thing from a man’s perspective. One’s own point of view, Rosemary, is inevitably limited.
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Remember, a book is always a gift.
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That’s a trilby,” I said, referring to Mr. Mitchell’s hat and trying to show off at least some expertise.“Named from du Maurier’s novel, later made into a play,” said Oscar. “It was a style worn on stage.”“You mean Rebecca?”“No, Rosemary. George du Maurier’s Trilby. Not Daphne. That was his granddaughter. Now, Trilby also introduced into common usage the name Svengali. You see, it’s a story about power, about control . . .
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He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .
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And when I think of my few acquisitions, I have to admit how fiercely the autodidact struggles for her education, and how incomplete that education remains. How illusory is any accumulation of knowledge!
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Yes, surprising, isn’t it?” he said. . . . “You’d think everyone would ask for what they want and there’d be hundreds of tailors catering to specification. But most people don’t know what they want.
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As a reader of fables, she must have recognized that I would need one of my own. . . . she knew a city would be the cure to the small life I had lived, the one I’d lost.
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