A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions … - Joyce Cary

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I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

Joyce Cary

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Allegiances, Art, Arts, Ideas, Old, World

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No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

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Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

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I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

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It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

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