Simpson: A Life
by Edward Sackville-West
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- Original title
- Simpson: A Life
- Original publication date
- 1931
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- Et omnis forma, per quam quaelibet res in propria specie constituitur, perfectio quaedam est.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
Moral triumphs are not aesthetic, because they have other occasions, but they are equally intellectual when realised in the spirit; they lie in the joy of having done this: they are a passage into essence. - George san... (show all)tayana - Dedication
- To MOPSA VON RIPPER in joyful memory of November 1928 to March 1929.
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- the Simpson family, of which Ruth was neither the eldest, youngest, nor in any way the most important member, lived at New Cross, in a house which had nothing except the Simpsons to distinguish it from its nineteen neighbours... (show all).
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But they were crushed savagely against her chest, and darkness---a huge, irregular saw---ground with a gathering shriek through her consciousness, destroying it for ever.
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