I like hearing the sound of your voice, but I don’t care a bit what you’re saying.
He pictures the evening he might have spent, snugly at home, fixing the food he has bought, then lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself slowly sleepy. At first glance this is...
George is very far, right now, from sneering at any of these fellow creatures. They may be crude and mercenary and dull and low, but he is proud, is glad, is almost indecently gleeful to be able to st...
For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that...
2NOTESYou broke your other appointment, didn’t you?I did not! I told you on the phone—these people canceled at the last minute—Oh, Geo dear, come off it! You know, I sometimes think, about you, whenev...
Their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.
Orada gördüğü, bir yüzden çok, berbat bir yüz ifadesi. İşte o yüzün kendine ettikleri, yaşadığı elli sekiz yıl boyunca nasılsa içine düşmeyi başardığı berbat durum; anlatımını donuk yorgun gözlerde, ş...
No. Even now I can't altogether believe that any of this really happened...
Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.
Il risveglio comincia con due parole, sono e ora.Poi ciò che si è svegliato resta disteso un momento a fissare il soffitto, e se stesso, fino a riconoscere Io, e a dedurne Io sono ora. Qui viene dopo,...
I mean, what is this life of ours supposed to be for? Are we to spend it identifying each other with catalogues, like tourists in an art gallery? Or are we to try to exchange some kind of a signal, ho...
Cambridge exceeded our most macabre expectations ... the arm-chairs, the crumpets, the beautifully-bound eighteenth century volumes, the fires roaring in stoked grates. Each of us had the loan of an a...
But George knows he can't do that. Because, absurdly, inadequately, in spite of himself, almost, he is a representative of the hope. And the hope is not false. No. It's just that George is like a man...
Azınlığın da kendine göre bir saldırganlığı vardır. Çoğunluğa kafa tutar, kendisine saldırılsın ister. Çoğunluktan nefret eder -nedensiz değil tabi, onu teslim ediyorum. Hatta öteki azınlıklardan bile...
I have had an unpleasant feeling, such as one has in a dream, that I myself do not exist.
There are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.
These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly -...
The Nazis were right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was without a cause. No one hates without a cause.
Never mind. Never mind. In this brief life, one cannot always be counting the cost.
It's gone! he repeats, almost ecstatically.That's because you let it go, Jacob tells him.