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| 119cfc8 | Bol'she togo, nam dana radost' videt' sebia i drugikh takimi, kak my est', znat' vse, chto znaiut bogi, i potomu proshchat' - dazhe tekh, kogo my prezirali i nenavideli v zhizni. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 0516520 | Take the goods the gods provide you. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 8c15593 | It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 2dbf2c4 | minds carefully drilled and educated out of any originality or self-resource that nature may have endowed them with. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 0bc7eae | religion which is nothing more of less than sun-worship of a pronounced and highly developed character. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 8c8ae11 | intense feeling is the mother of eloquence. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 1387958 | there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross, save a mountain and a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hands counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or lose it as Heaven above may order. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 1dc58cf | Women's eyes are always bright, whatever the colour, | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 017fb04 | but of those Jews whom I hated, for they called me 'heathen' when I would have taught them my philosophy -- did their Messiah come, and doth He rule the world?" "Their Messiah came," I answered with reverence; "but He came poor and lowly, and they would have none of Him. They scourged Him, and crucified Him upon a tree, but yet His words and His works live on, for He was the Son of God, and now of a truth He doth rule half the world, but no.. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| dea150b | Athiests, those spiritual destroyers, who in the name of progress and humanity would divorce hope from life and leave us wandering in a lonesome, self consecrated hell. | spirituality | H. Rider Haggard | |
| e7207cf | The clouds had shifted, the moon was almost ripe, and her hair had turned to silver in its glaze. He'd been glad she hadn't caught him staring. Lucky for Tom, she'd crouched on the ground and started digging about in the rubble. He went nearer, curious as to what had claimed her focus, and saw that somehow, in the jumble of London's broken streets, she'd found a tangle of honeysuckle, fallen to the ground after its fence rattlings were remo.. | inner-strength juniper-and-tom juniper-blythe | Kate Morton | |
| eebbb28 | The gunman shifted his aim, following Victor's path as he leaped into the adjacent bathroom, bullets blowing a line of neat holes out of the wall behind him. Ejected brass cases clinked together on the carpet around the assassin's feet. In the bathroom, Victor came out of his roll into a crouch, letting off a quick shot, firing blind before he'd fully turned around. The bullet whizzed through the open doorway, sending up a puff of plaster a.. | Tom Wood | ||
| ee5e9e4 | So why did Sydney - a pretty girl, whose greatest enjoyments in life were sailing, visiting France and ice-skating, and who loved the parties and dancing she attended as a debutante - marry David, who was a countryman at heart, actively disliked meeting new people and regarded 'abroad' with suspicion and horror? There can be no other reason but that she fell in love with him. He was a kind man and he was very funny. He made her laugh and un.. | Mary S. Lovell | ||
| c0501d5 | David was one of nine children, and Sydney was one of four. Their respective siblings produced, between 1910 and 1927, twenty-one children with the surnames Mitford, Farrer, Kearsey, Bowyer, Bowles and Bailey, and many of these first cousins were to play major parts in the lives of the Mitford children as they grew up and visited each other's homes. But the network of kinsmen who were to people the lives of the Mitford children were rooted .. | Mary S. Lovell | ||
| 9ae8081 | the Isle of Wight, with occasional visits to | Mary S. Lovell | ||
| 0378058 | In a televised version of one of Nancy's books, these child hunts were given a more sinister connotation with the children running terrified through woods while their father, on horseback, thundered after them with a pack of hounds baying. In fact the children loved it - they thought the hound was 'so clever'.29 In her novel Nancy had referred to 'four great hounds in full cry after two little girls' and 'Uncle Matthew and the rest would fo.. | Mary S. Lovell | ||
| 9742b4c | completed. It had been designed by Albert Speer and alone | John Provan | ||
| 3e2f1b6 | Several letters, written by Nancy to her father in France, survive. She had been learning French after David's mother told Sydney, 'There is nothing so inferior as a gentlewoman who has no French.' In her first attempt at writing to him in French, in April 1916, Nancy tells him of a robin's nest in their garden, that she had heard a cuckoo, and about her pet goat: David's delightful response is in verse: His letters to his children, writt.. | Mary S. Lovell | ||
| 9459fbf | Sydney enjoyed living in the country, though she took no direct part in field sports. After her marriage, there is no record of her shooting or hunting, though as a girl she rode well and often, and when she accompanied her father to Scotland in 1898 she was regarded as 'a brilliant shot'.33 As they grew up she encouraged her children to follow the hounds of the Heythrop Hunt and join their father when he fished and shot, but if they were n.. | Mary S. Lovell | ||
| 86dac1e | At about this time David hit on a scheme to end their financial problems. With his growing family, their limited income must have been the cause of constant worry to him. Stories of the rich strikes in the Klondike a decade earlier, perhaps bolstered by his spell of active service in South Africa, seem to have persuaded him that gold-mining might be the answer. On hearing that a new goldfield had been discovered in Ontario, he staked severa.. | Mary S. Lovell | ||
| a5c6c43 | There was talk of Sydney going to Girton, the women's college at Cambridge, and she went to view the college, but for some unknown reason the idea was dropped. Only a handful of women attended university at the end of the nineteenth century; perhaps Sydney did not wish to be regarded as a 'blue-stocking'. With her tall, slender figure, a cloud of light brown hair, generous sulky mouth, and large blue eyes she was pronounced beautiful, and s.. | Mary S. Lovell | ||
| 7d6b23a | Mary Lovell's Straight On Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham was the first biography to bring Beryl to light, in 1987, and her pioneering efforts and careful research have been crucial to my own and other writers' abilities to imagine Beryl's life. Mary Lovell also compiled Beryl Markham's stories in The Splendid Outcast, a collection that wouldn't have been available otherwise, and for that | Paula McLain | ||
| a691f56 | It seems such an ordinary story, this handsome but otherwise unremarkable young couple settling down to a quietly happy marriage, looking forward to further children. Though they had no great prospects they were content with their lot in life. There was absolutely no indication that their children - there would be seven in all - would be so extraordinary that they would make the family a household name. | Mary S. Lovell | ||
| 553dae1 | For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's. | nuremberg-trials world-war-2 | Albert Speer | |
| 109ac6c | The gentleman sitting on my left was young, very tall and blond, and had the posture of a sphinx reimagined by Albert Speer. | Tim Rogers | ||
| 7ca2521 | Gercekte, edebiyat beyhudelikten cesaret alan bir unutustu. Bu saptama onu asagilamiyor, aksine yuceltiyordu. En onemlisi - diye dusunuyordu Alvaro, eserine hayat vermeden once uzun uzun dusunme ve arastirma ile gecen yillari boyunca- atalarimizin edebiyatinda bizi tamamiyla anlatan, bizim kendimizin, en mahrem arzularimizin, en sefil gercekligimizin sifresini teskil eden bir damar bulmak. En onemlisi bu gelenegi yeniden baslatmak ve ona ka.. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 85353e9 | En democracia la politica es un teatro y nadie puede actuar en un teatro sin fingir. | politics | Javier Cercas | |
| 26f471d | Igual que la ya vieja industria del entretenimiento necesita alimentarse del kitsch estetico, que regala a quien lo consume la ilusion de estar gozando del arte autentico sin pedirle a cambio ninguno de los esfuerzos que ese goce exige ni obligarle a que se exponga a ninguna de las aventuras intelectuales y los riesgos morales que entrana, la nueva industria de la memoria necesita alimentarse del kitsch historico, que regala a quien lo cons.. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 96eadee | Hacer politica consiste en ceder en lo accesorio para no ceder en lo esencial. | Javier Cercas | ||
| b1e7423 | era un catolico de misa diaria, un hombre lleno de buenas intenciones y un creyente en la bondad natural del ser humano. En definitiva, un sujeto peligroso. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 7061c37 | un historiador serio y, como tal, un enemigo jurado de la industria de la memoria, | Javier Cercas | ||
| 64e7dc1 | Y el pasado volvio, inevitablemente. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 740003f | lo que la convivencia prolongada entre dos personas sobre todo segrega es una relacion de dependencia entre ellas. Me digo tambien que muy pocas veces esa relacion esta basada en el amor, un sentimiento que, en el mejor de los casos, dura lo que dura una aparicion (lo dijo La Rochefoucauld y lo repite Marcelo y es verdad: el amor es como los fantasmas: todo el mundo habla de el pero nadie lo ha visto); tampoco esta basada, contra lo que sue.. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 3faad74 | He llegado a la conclusion de que la realidad mata y la ficcion salva. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 0eb3844 | empece a decirme que una buena mentira no es una mentira pura, exenta, que una mentira pura es una mentira inverosimil, que, para que sea verosimil, una mentira tiene que construirse en parte con verdades, y | Javier Cercas | ||
| b18c028 | Dos-a-Dos Gonzalez, | Javier Cercas | ||
| 29a6c95 | O era su pertenencia a la UJA la pequena verdad con que Marco habia amasado las mentiras de su primera posguerra --la minuscula poesia epica con que habia intentado tenir la prosa general de su vida--, del mismo modo que su estancia en el frente del Segre era la pequena verdad con que habia amasado sus mentiras de la guerra? | Javier Cercas | ||
| c814448 | Ahora todo el mundo quiere ser siempre joven; lo entiendo, pero es un poco idiota. | Javier Cercas | ||
| f0e56f0 | Yo enamore a mi mujer haciendole creer que era escritor y al final tuve que hacerme escritor para que se quedase conmigo. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 5c68189 | Lo que quiero decir es que quien siempre sabe adonde va nunca llega a ninguna parte, y que solo se sabe lo que se quiere decir cuando ya se ha dicho | Javier Cercas | ||
| c7a6c87 | los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede; | Javier Cercas | ||
| b9435ce | Es usted demasiado joven para pensar en tener hijos", me dijo el padre de Rodney cuando nos despediamos, y no lo he olvidado. "No los tenga, porque se arrepentira; aunque si no los tiene tambien se arrepentira. Asi es la vida: haga lo que haga, se arrepentira. Pero dejeme que le diga una cosa: todas las historias de amor son insensatas, porque el amor es una enfermedad; pero tener un hijo es arriesgarse a una historia de amor tan insensata .. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 75ba61a | quiza porque en aquel momento tuve por primera vez la intuicion falaz de que el pasado no es un lugar estable sino cambiante, permanentemente alterado por el futuro, y de que por tanto nada de lo ya acontecido es irreversible | Javier Cercas | ||
| eeb5476 | muy a lo lejos se divisaban las luces del pueblo de Barranquilla, pero no tan cerca como para llegar a nado. Algunos | Javier Moro |