The City of Beautiful Nonsense
The City of Beautiful Nonsense is a novel by E. Temple Thurston, written in the early 20th century. It follows John Grey, a journalist in London, as he navigates life's struggles and encounters a lady in a chapel on St. Joseph's Day. The narrative explores themes of poverty, desire, and human connection through a rich tapestry of character studies, revealing the complexities of their lives and aspirations. The book highlights the serendipitous nature of relationships amid the chaos of existence.
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“You've got to see Venice," he began. "You've got to see a city of slender towers and white domes, sleeping in the water like a mass of water lilies. You've got to see dark waterways, mysterious threads of shadow, binding all these flowers of stone together.””
— Unknown
“One is so much wiser when one is young--one is so much younger when one is old.””
— Unknown
“There comes a time when a mother loves her son, because he is a man just as the man she has loved.””
— Unknown
“For just as the virtue of wealth will bring out the evil of avarice, so will the evil of poverty bring out the virtue of self-respect. In this world, there is as much good that comes out of evil as ever stands by itself alone. This, in fact, is the need of evil, that out of it may lift the good.””
— Unknown
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