I Tietjens, który nie nienawidził nikogo, mając przed sobą prostolinijnego człowieka typu szkolnego kolegi, zaczął rozmyślać nad tym, jak to ludzkość traktowana jednostkowo była niemal zawsze sympatyc...
He had the very greatest admiration. He admire her for her truthfulness, for her cleanness of mind, and the clean-run-ness of her limbs, for her efficiency, for the fairness of her skin, for the gold...
In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little,...
Being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair
Przepraszam, że byłam dla pana nieuprzejma. Ale to naprawdę irytujące, że stoi się jak wypchany królik, podczas gdy mężczyzna odgrywa Prawdziwego Dżentelmena, chłodnego i zorganizowanego, z całą pozą...
Jest pan zadziwiający, jak na mężczyznę, który stara się zachowywać jak ukwiał!
From time to time we shall get up and go to the door and look out at the great moon and say: 'Why, it is nearly as bright as in Provence!' And then we shall come back to the fireside, with just the to...
But we who remain shall grow oldWe shall know the coldOf cheerlessWinter and the rain of Autumn and the stingOf poverty, of love despised and of disgraces,And mirrors showing stained and aging faces,...
What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his!
You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.
You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to desire to set down what...
These trenches are like Pompeii, sir.
The repressions of the passionate drive them mad.
As Tietjens saw the world, you didn't talk. Perhaps you didn't even think about how you felt.
A man's books are very much himself.
You cannot control your imagination’s pictures. Of
It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible?
I don’t know. I know nothing. I am very tired.
Człowiek nie musi żyć wśród mętów społeczeństwa, aby nie usłyszeć nic o mętach towarzystwa.
All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities--even merely with the velvet.