It seemed sadistic, this last wasteland of days. It was as if Conchis, with Alison’s connivance, proceeded by some outmoded Victorian dietetic morality—one couldn’t have more jam, the sweetness of eve...
Its meaning is whatever reaction it provokes in the reader, and so far as I am concerned there is no given ‘right’ reaction.
Knowledge of my atrocious selfishness, settled on me. All those bitter home truths she had flung at me, right from the beginning…and still loved me; was so blind that she still loved me. One day she h...
Man is a highly acquisitive creature, brainwashed by most modern societies into believing that the act of acquisition is more enjoyable than the fact of having acquired, that getting beats having got.
The thing I felt most clearly, when the first corner was turned, was that I had escaped. Obscurer, but no less strong, was the feeling that she loved me more than I loved her, and that consequently I...
These question-boundaries ...are ours, not of reality. We are led to them, caged by them not only culturally and intellectually, but quite physically, by the restlessness of our eyes and their limited...
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...
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...
You use your life.
You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.
A cloud, it would
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.
Морис на моем месте сказал бы, что секс отличается от других удовольствий интенсивностью, но не качеством. Что это лишь часть, причем не главная, тех человеческих отношений, что зовутся любовью. И что...
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?
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.
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...
Ей было лет тридцать. Прирожденная старая дева, до того непривлекательная, что в своих модных тряпках и обильном макияже выглядит просто жалкой, будто незадачливая гейша.
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...
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...
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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