Che cos'è l'Ottocento? Un'epoca nella quale la donna era sacra, e si poteva comprare una ragazza di tredici anni per poche sterline, o pochi scellini se la si voleva soltanto per un'ora o due. Nella q...
Charles did not know it, but in those brief poised seconds above the waiting sea, in that luminous evening silence broken only by the waves' quiet wash, the whole Victorian Age was lost. And I do not...
But suddenly he comprehended why her face haunted him, why he felt this terrible need to see her again: it was to possess her, to melt into her, to burn, to burn, to burn to ashes on that body and in...
Because I don’t understand Him. Why He is, who He is, or how He is. And Maurice tells me I am quite intelligent. I think God must be very intelligent to be so much more intelligent than I am. To give...
Aquí en la frontera, caen las hojas. Aunque mis vecinos son todos bárbaros, y tú, tú estás a mil kilómetros de aquí, siempre hay dos tazas en mi mesa.
Ti-ai pus vreodata intrebarea de ce evolutia speciilor si-a dat atata osteneala sa ajunga la aceasta infinita diversitate de forme si dimensiuni? Asta ti se pare tot o inutila punere in scena?
Возможно, я просто довольно хорошо его узнала. Знание подноготной автоматически сближает. Даже если вам хочется, чтобы этот человек находился как можно дальше, желательно - на другой планете.
You don't have any time for silly trivial things. You live seriously. You don't go to silly films, even if you want to; you don't read cheap newspapers; you don't listen to trash on the wireless and t...
Under this swarm of waspish self-inquiries he began to feel sorry for himself - a brilliant man trapped, a Byron tamed; and his mind wandered back to Sarah, to visual images, attempts to recollect tha...
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dim...
How I hate ignorance! Caliban’s ignorance, my ignorance, the world’s ignorance! Oh, I could learn and learn and learn and learn. I could cry, I want to learn so much.
Forse voi credete che i romanzieri abbiano sempre un piano predeterminato per il loro lavoro, e che il futuro previsto nel primo capitolo sia sempre, inesorabilmente, il presente del tredicesimo. In r...
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
All of us are failures; we all die.Nobody wants to be a nobody. All our acts are partly devised to fill or to mask the emptiness we feel at the core.We all like to be loved or hated; it is a sign that...
Ей было лет тридцать. Прирожденная старая дева, до того непривлекательная, что в своих модных тряпках и обильном макияже выглядит просто жалкой, будто незадачливая гейша.
Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
As dori, de asemenea, sa tii seama de faptul ca astfel de intamplari nu au putut avea loc decat intr-o lume in care barbatul se considera superior femeii. In lumea pe care americanii o numesc a man's...
And yes, he had more dignity than I did then and I felt small, mean. Always sneering at him, jabbing him, hating him and showing it. It was funny, we sat in silence facing each other and I had a feeli...
Перед выходом она накладывала на веки густые тени, и, если они сочетались с обычным для нее мрачным выражением губ, похоже было, что ее побили; и чем дольше вы смотрели на нее, тем больше вам хотелось...
Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity. We were at the opposite poles of humanity. Lily was humanity bound to duty, unable to choose, suffering at the mercy of social ideals. Humanit...