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Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure, short of total abstention.

— Penelope Fitzgerald Human Voices (1980)

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There are dilettantes in human relationships just as there are, let's say, in politics.

Innocence (1986)

The frame of mind, however, is everything. Given that, one can have a very satisfactory party all by oneself.

The Bookshop (1978)

A serious thinking adult had no defence against innocence because he was obliged to respect it, whereas the innocent scarcely knows what respect is, or seriousness either.

Innocence (1986)

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