(39) My worship of this ideal beauty is directed towards its
most perfect manifestation, which is yourself. I would therefore like to be
married to you in a building dedicated to beauty, which is goodness, which is
truth.
(65) Drive, vitality, intelligence of a high order, vision,
energy and a delightful gaiety were immediately apparent on meeting him.
(65) Like most born orators, Mosley was not afraid to show
emotion.
(93) Venice, romantic and beautiful, with its tiny squares and
great dark churches, was a city made for secrecy and assignations.
(136) Hitler, of course, was well aware of the power of uniforms
and hierarchy in a country where even the town hall officials were known by
their titles. He understood the potency of symbols, of dramatic momentum – he
never spoke until one or more of his associates had already roused the crowd into
a frenzy – and, knowing the German temperament, he did not fear the ridicule
often evoked elsewhere by fascist theatricality.
(303) As for Diana, from adolescence on she had sought the
company of the witty, cultivated and artistic, and – foreign country or no – it
was unthinkable to her not to entertain and be entertained.
Diana was an atheist.
(350) He was a philanderer and naturally I don’t mind you saying
so, but it was a tiny part of life given up to ideas and work – ideas which are
everyday proving themselves to have been excellent and possible (the art of the
possible) even after the disastrous war which half destroyed our wonderful
Europe.
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