What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
“What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.”
— Alice James · Escape
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What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
“What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.”
— Alice James · Escape
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“What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.”
“I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”
“One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”
“Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.”
“How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.”
“The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.”
“The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'”
“Flying my own small plane is my escape. I learnt to fly in 2006 and share ownership of a Socata TB10.”
“Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.”
“I like to escape to hotels.”
“I've seen 'Stalker' more times than any film except 'The Great Escape.'”
“In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.”