After that they browsed for a minute or two in a semi-detached fashion. Nick found a set of Trollope which had a relatively modest and approachable look among the rest, and took down The Way We Live Now, with an armorial bookplate, the pages uncut. “What have you found there?” said Lord Kessler, in a genially possessive tone. “Ah, you’re a Trollope man, are you?” “ I’m not sure I am, really, ” said Nick. “I always think he wrote too fast. What was it Henry James said, about Trollope and his ‘great heavy shovelfuls of testimony to constituted English matters’?” Lord Kessler paid a moment’s wry respect to this bit of showing off, but said, “Oh, Trollope’s good. He’s very good on money.” “ Oh…yes…” said Nick, feeling doubly disqualified by his complete ignorance of money and by the aesthetic prejudice which had stopped him from ever reading Trollope. “To be honest, there’s a lot of him I haven’t yet read.” “ No, this one is pretty good, ” Nick said, gazing at the spine with an air of judicious concession. Sometimes his memory of books he pretended to have read became almost as vivid as that of books he had read and half forgotten, by some fertile process of auto-suggestion. He pressed the volume back into place and closed the gilded cage. .Alan Hollinghurst
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Human beings are not only born with the ability to feel, but to connect with others through feelings. The human brain runs on emotions and feelings, which are connected together through the senses. Even if we choose not to show our feelings for other people, we can still feel them. Everyone has their own way of showing their feelings and this is something that will never change.
When we are born, we are forced to walk around on our own two feet, but there is no reason why we should not be able to experience love and kindness. This is one of the greatest gifts that life has given us, for even though it is possible that someone may hurt us or betray us, it is also possible that they will return that hurt by making you feel good about yourself.
Source: The Line Of Beauty
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