Стремление, которым он когда-то гордился, жить настоящим моментом и пользоваться любым предоставляющимся шансом — теперь мешало ему действовать. Он начал понимать, что никогда, даже будучи в теснейших...
Удивила его противоречивым сочетанием в ней современного чувства практической целесообразности и старомодного понятия честности... (Ник Лэнсинг - о Сюзи Бранч)
A smiling, bantering, humouring, watchful and incessant lie. A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in ever...
A tremor of apprehension encircled the room. None of the ladies required any preparation to pronounce on a question of morals; but when they were called ethics it was different. The club, when fresh f...
Absent- that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him to find they still imagined he was there.
Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.
After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...
Age seemed to have come down on him as winter comes on the hills after a storm.
And all the while, I suppose, he thought, real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...
And for a long while they stood side by side without speaking, each seeing the other in every line of the landscape.
And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed...
Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her--of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated--he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind...
As long ago as Pythagoras, man was taught that all things were in a state of flux, without end as without beginning, and must we still, after more than two thousand years, pretend to regard the univer...
Because it's against the custom of the country. And whose fault is that? The man's again—I don't mean Ralph I mean the genus he belongs to: homo sapiens, Americanus. Why haven't we taught our women to...
But the idealist subdued to vulgar necessities must employ vulgar minds to draw the inferences to which he cannot stoop
But these mysteries, and many others, were closely locked in Mr. Jackson’s breast; for not only did his keen sense of honour forbid his repeating anything privately imparted, but he was fully aware th...
But you'll get it back-you'll get it all back, with your face...
Cuando estamos separados y deseo verte, cada pensamiento se consume en una gran llama... entonces llegad, y eres tanto más de lo que recordaba, y lo que quiero de ti tanto más que una hora o dos de ve...
Cuando un hombre amaba a una mujer ésta siempre tenía la edad que él quisiera; y cuando dejaba de amarla se convertía en demasiado vieja para los hechizos o en demasiado joven para la técnica .
Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.
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