But the idealist subdued to vulgar necessities must employ vulgar minds to draw the inferences to which he cannot stoop
But at sunset the clouds gathered again, bringing an earlier night, and the snow began to fall straight and steadily from a sky without wind, in a soft universal diffusion more confusing than the gust...
But I am born happy every morning,
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...
As she sat thus, the lamplight full on her clear brow, he said to himself with a secret dismay that he would always know the thoughts behind it, that never, in all the years to come, would she surpris...
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...
Any personal entanglement might mean bother, and bother was the thing she most abhorred.
Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.
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.
Жить, как живут рабочие, в двух комнатах, без прислуги... (Сюзи Бранч - Стреффорду)
Её... память не соответствовала широте её интересов. (О миссис Хикс)
Есть много способов ответить на письмо — и, как ни странно, писать — это не мой способ. (Ник Лэнсинг - Сюзи Бранч)
The endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.
How much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?
He arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation at the elaborate futility of his life
He could do charming things, if only he had known how to finish them!
Вместо возможной зависимости, вынужденного возврата к прежней жизни, состоящей из компромиссов и уступок, она увидела перед собой — когда решит выбрать их — свободу, силу и достоинство. ...которое в т...
Власть вещей, без которых, как всем нам кажется, можно обойтись. Человеческие привычки прочней египетских пирамид. Удобства, роскошь, атмосфера свободы… а превыше всего возможность избежать скуки и мо...
They had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.
Put into words by this selfish, well-fed, and supremely indifferent old man it suddenly became the Pharisaic voice of a society wholly absorbed in barricading itself against the unpleasant.