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Idle' she writes 'to imagine falling in love as a correspondence of minds, of thoughts; it is a simultaneous firing of two spirits engaged in the autonomous act of growing up. And the sensation is of something having noiselessly exploded inside each of them. Around this event, dazed and preoccupied, the lover moves examining his or her own experience; her gratitude alone, stretching away towards a mistaken donor, creates the illusion that s..
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'Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine'.)
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On priglasil ee na tanets i, pomolchav s minutu, obratilsia k nei velichavo i pechal'no: <> -- sprosil on. Melissa podniala na nego vzgliad, priamoi spokoinyi vzgliad slishkom opytnoi zhenshchiny, i otvetila miagko: <>.
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Razve ne zavisit vse na svete ot nashei interpretatsii tsariashchego vokrug nas molchaniia?
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history - the lamp which illumines national character...
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I meant of course the whole portentous scrimmage of sex itself, the act of penetration which could lead a man to despair for the sake of a creature with two breasts and le croissant as the picturesque Levant slang has it.
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In marriage they legitimized despair; every kiss is the conquest of a repulsion.
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Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged.
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If you think of yourself as a sleeping city for example... what? You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation.
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We were like mourners at an invisible cenotaph during the two minutes' silence which commemorates an irremediable failure of the human will.
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There are some characters in this world who are marked down for self-destruction, and to these no amount of rational argument can appeal. For my part Justine always reminded me of a somnambulist discovered treading the perilous leads of a high tower; any attempt to wake her with a shout might lead to disaster. One could only follow her silently in the hope of guiding her gradually away from the great shadowy drops which loomed up on every s..
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This world represents the promise of a unique happiness which we are not well-enough equipped to grasp.
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One learns nothing from those who return our love.
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Two things spread quickly: gossip and a forest fire"--Cypriot proverb.) I"
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if you intend to try and work, not to sit under the Tree of Idleness.
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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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The most tender, the most tragic of illusions is perhaps to believe that our actions can add or subtract from the total quantity of good and evil in the world.
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He would wake to see the towers and minarets printed on the exhausted, dust-powdered sky, and see as if en montage on them the giant footprints of the historical memory which lies behind the recollections of individual personality, its mentor and guide: indeed its inventor, since man is only an extension of the spirit of place.
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Let us go to bed together and ignore the loutish reality of the world.
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He always puzzled me --except when I had him in my arms.
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am recalling now how during that last spring (forever) we walked together at full moon, overcome by the soft dazed air of the city, the quiet ablutions of water and moonlight that polished it like a great casket. An aerial lunacy among the deserted trees of the dark squares, and the long dusty roads reaching away from midnight to midnight, bluer than oxygen.
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this wonder of an Englishman who spoke indifferent but comprehensible Greek.... Before we parted he drew a
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It was already dark and the city was drifting like a bed of seaweed towards the lighted cafes of the upper town.
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Conversely the British saw a one-dimensional figure in the Cypriot; they did not realize how richly the landscape was stocked with the very sort of characters who rejoice the English heart in a small country town--the rogue, the drunkard, the singer, the incorrigible.
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Other countries may offer you discoveries in manners or lore or landscape; Greece offers you something harder--the discovery of yourself.
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But then is not life itself a fairy-tale which we lose the power of apprehending as we grow? No matter.
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A novel should be an act of divination by entrails, not a careful record of a game of pat-ball on some vicarage lawn!
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Even "time is money" comes into the picture; and then, if you think that money is excrement for the Freudian, you understand that time must be also!"
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These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.
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We had not a taste in common. Our characters and predispositions were wholly different, and yet in the magical ease of this friendship we felt something promised us.
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impressive symbols of a wealth which is powerless to bring true leisure or peace of mind for it demands everything of the human soul.
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Ancient lands, in all their prehistoric intactness: lake-solitudes hardly brushed by the hurrying feet of the centuries where the uninterrupted pedigrees of pelican and ibis and heron evolve their slow destinies in complete seclusion.
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Pervoe, chto on sdelal, kogda rekhnulsia, -- zateial sudebnyi protsess protiv sobstvennykh synovei, dvoikh iz nas, vydvinuv obvinenie v soznatel'noi i zlonamerennoi nezakonnorozhdennosti.
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Some characters in the world are marked down for self-destruction, and to these no amount of rational argument can appeal.
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Its women shall be the voluptuaries not of pleasure but of pain, doomed to hunt for what they least dare to find.
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These are not, you see, the sort of distinctions of which women are usually capable.
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Every variety of the name of flesh, old flesh quailing upon aged bones, or the unquenched flesh of boys and women on limbs infirm with the desires that could be represented in effigy but not be slaked except in mime -- for they were desires engendered in the forests of the mind, belonging not to themselves but to remote ancestors speaking through them. Lust belongs to the egg and its seat is below the level of psyche.
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Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.
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think she was also thinking, perhaps, of Justine, up there in the big house among the tall candles and the oil-paintings by forgotten masters.
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autonomous act of growing up. And the sensation is of something having noiselessly exploded inside each of them. Around this event, dazed and preoccupied, the lover moves examining his or her own experience; her gratitude alone, stretching away towards a mistaken donor, creates the illusion that she communicates with her fellow, but this is false. The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narci..
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Bir kadinla uc sey yapabilirsin; ya onu seversin ya onun icin aci cekersin ya da onu yazarsin.
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An artist does not have a personal life as we do, he hides it, forcing us to go to his books if we wish to touch the true source of his feelings. Underneath all his preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions which allow the forebrain to chatter) there is, quite simply, a man tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.
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The great prayer wound its way into my sleepy consciousness like a serpent, coil after shining coil of words--the voice of the muezzin sinking from register to register of gravity--until the whole morning seemed dense with its marvelous healing powers, the intimations of a grace undeserved and unexpected, impregnating that shabby room where Melissa lay, breathing lightly as a gull, rocked upon the oceanic splendours of a language she would ..
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La culpa se apresura siempre hacia su complemento, el castigo, y solo alli encuentra satisfaccion.
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