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61 " It was a profession he enjoyed, and which mercifully provided him with colleagues equally obscure in character and origin. It also provided him with what he had once loved best in life: academic excursions into the mystery of human behaviour, disciplined by the practical application of his own deductions. "
― John le Carré , Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1)
62 " it dawned on him gradually that he had entered middle age without ever being young, and that he was—in the nicest possible way—on the shelf. "