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Brideshead Revisited - Family Flashcards

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Here my last love died […]

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She was stripped of all enchantment now […] an uncongenial stranger to whom I had bound myself

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Even then,

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Rapt in the vision, I felt […] an ominous chill at the words he used - not, “that is my house”, but “it’s where my family live”

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They’re so madly charming […]

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They’d make you their friend not mine, and I won’t let them.

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4
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You wanted…

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To do sightseeing

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I am rather curious…

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About people’s families […] it’s not a thing I know about.

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Such a very…

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Sinister family […] they’re all charming, of course, and quite gruesome

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7
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The dinner table…

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Was our battlefield

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8
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Strife was…

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Internecine during the next fortnight

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9
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My father had greater…

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Reserves to draw on and wider territory for manoeuvre […] he never declared his war aims

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10
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Mutilated…

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Old trees […] destruction

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11
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I felt at heart…

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That this was not all which Oxford had to offer

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12
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Descent or ascend?…

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It seems to me that I grew younger daily with each adult habit I acquired

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13
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Its naughtiness…

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High in the catalogue of grave sins

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14
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There was…

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A change in both of us

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Anthony Blanche…

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Had taken something away with him when he went; he had locked a door

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16
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The life that seemed…

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To be shrinking in the cold air

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17
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Those that have charm…

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Don’t really need brains

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I wonder is she’s…

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Incestuous, I doubt it; all she wants is power

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A voice as quiet…

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As a prayer, and as powerful

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She meanwhile…

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Keeps a small gang of enslaved and emaciated prisoners […] she sucks their blood

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21
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Voluptuary, …

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Byronic, bored, infectiously slothful

22
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She is so much resembled…

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Sebastian that, sitting beside her in the gathering dust, I was confused by the double illusion of familiarity and strangeness

23
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We wandered alone…

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Through that enchanted palace […] alpine strawberries and warm figs

24
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He’s miserable, …

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She bird-happy; Julia and I are half-heathen […] I wish I liked Catholics more

25
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I was drowning…

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In honey, stingless

26
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They are full of hate - …

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Hate of themselves

27
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Alex was…

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Nearly a drunkard when he met me; it is in the blood

28
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Lady M’s brothers

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Three legendary heroes

29
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Julia tells me…

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You have a tame one called Samgrass

30
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We must make…

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A catholic of Charles […] and we had many little talks […] she delicately steered the subject into a holy quarter

31
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There trod the grim invasion…

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Of trader, administrator, missionary, tourist […] to turn from the sunlit door and lie alone in the darkness, where the impotent, painted deities paraded the walls in vain, and cough his heart out among the rum bottles

32
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You see Charles, …

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I look on you very much as one of ourselves

33
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Both of them…

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Unhappy, ashamed and running away. It’s too pitiful

34
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I wondered […]

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Whether perhaps there was not on her, too, the same blaze, marking her and hers for destruction by other ways than war

35
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It seems to me that without…

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Your religion Sebastian would have the chance to be a happy and healthy man

36
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Just another…

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Boring family potin […] it’s too tedious

37
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We have no secrets…

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In this house

38
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The subject was everywhere…

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In the house like a fire deep in the hold of a ship, below the water-line, black and red in the darkness

39
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I had come to the surface […]

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After a long captivity in the sunless coral palaces

40
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Everyone of that sort…

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Is poorer than they were in 1914, and the Flytes don’t seem to realise it

41
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Poor mummy.

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She really was a femme fatale, wasn’t she? She killed at a touch.

42
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The sun had sunk […]

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The lakes below us were aflame; the light grew in strength and splendour as it neared death, drawing long shadows

43
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A rough, healthy, prosperous

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Fellow […] Lady Marchmain disliked him

44
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Rex hoped…

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To have the whole of Julius dowry in his hands, to make it work for him

45
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[rex was] unnaturally developed; …

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Something in a bottle […] something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce

46
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In the end, I couldn’t …

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Even give that: I couldn’t even give her life

47
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Charles on why he married Celia

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Physical attraction. Ambition […] loneliness, missing Sebastian […] he was the forerunner

48
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Perhaps […]

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All our loves are merely hints and symbols […] along the weary road that others have tramped before us

49
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I’m homeless, …

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Childless, middle-aged, loveless

50
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Waugh displays…

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A lack of sympathy […] for the actual emotions of human beings

Henry Reed

Waugh can only depict divine love as perfect, all other families are flawed

51
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Brideshead Revisited […]

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(Represents) The conflict between the imperious demands of faith and the equally urgent claims of earthly affections and desires

Valerie Kennedy

52
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Thus strategists hesitate…

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Over the map […] victory and defeat were changes of pin and line. She knew nothing of war.

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