human
I am sick of politics, he declared suddenly.
gpt
We are a parcel of fools. Our feet move day and night to the solemn music.
human
You, of all men, she protested,
gpt
I mean it, he insisted, a little doggedly.
human
I have spent too many of my years on the treadmill. A man was born to be either an egoist and parcel out the earth according to his tastes, or to develop like Dartrey into a dreamer.--Curse you! he added, suddenly shaking his fist at the tall towers of the Houses of Parliament.
gpt
You're like an infernal boarding-school, with your detentions and impositions and castigations. There must be something beyond.
human
A Cabinet Minister--
gpt
The sixth form, he interrupted.
human
There's just one aspiration of life to be granted under that roof and to win it you are asked to stifle all the rest. It isn't worth it.
gpt
It's the greatest game at which men can play,
human
And also the narrowest because it is the most absorbing, he answered.
gpt
We have our triumphs there and they end in a chuckle. Don't you love sunshine in winter, strange cities, pictures, pictures of another age, pictures which take your thoughts back into another world, architecture that is not utilitarian, the faces of human beings on whom the strain of life has never fallen? And women--women whose eyes will laugh into yours, who haven't a single view in life, who don't care a fig about improving their race, who want just love, to give and to take?
human
But you have turned pagan!
gpt
An instant's revolt against the methodism of life, he replied, his feet once more upon the earth.
human
But the feeling's there, all the same, he went on doggedly.
gpt
I want to leave school. I have been there so long. It seems to me my holiday is overdue.
human
That comes of your having ignored us,
gpt
It isn't my fault if I have,
human
In a sense it is, she insisted.
gpt
The woman in your life should be the most beautiful part of it. You chose to make her the stepping-stone to your ambition. Consequently you go through life hungry, you wait till you almost starve, and then suddenly the greatest things in the world which lie to your hand seem like baubles.
human
You are hideously logical,