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The Navy guy and I told each other we were glad to’ve met each other. Which always kils me. I’m always saing ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

The chaplain glanced at the bridge table that served as his desk and saw only the abominable orange-red, pear-shaped, plum tomato he had obtained that same morning from Colonel Cathcart, still lying on its side where he had forgotten it like an indestructible and incarnadine symbol of his own ineptitude.

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves. They had never taken the form of struggles. They belonged to her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and that they concerned no one but herself.

We are perpetually labouring to destroy our delights, our composure, our devotion to superior power. Of all the animals on earth we least know what is good for us. My opinion is, that what is best for us is our admiration of good.

I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

How do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t.

If he were to say, ‘Here, Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours’, I should laugh at you both.

Gain ten pounds and they put you in Solitary.

If you’re a human being, you’ll be seeing something of both, because we’ve always wanted things both ways.

Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better.

I couldn’t help loving you if you were ten times his wife; but so long as I went away from you and kept away I could help telling you so.

Limping, attendants rushed up to support him, Attendants made of gold who looked like real girls, With a mind within, and a voice, and strength, And knowledge of crafts from the immortal gods. These busily moved to support their lord…

Pero ¿Dónde estaban mis amigos y familiares? No había tenido un padre que cuidase de mi infancia, ni una madre que me bendijese con sus sonrisas y caricias; y si los tuve, toda mi vida pasada no era sino tiniebla, un ciego vacío que no distinguía nada. Desde el principio de mis recuerdos, había sido como era entonces en estatura y proporción. Hasta ahora, nunca había visto a un ser que se pareciese a mí ni pretendiese contacto alguno conmigo. ¿ Qué era yo? La pregunta me surgía una y otra vez, sólo para contestarla con gemidos

But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy.

I feel angry. I’m not proud of myself for this, or for any of it. But then, that’s the point.

Vi cómo se marchitaba y acababa por perderse la belleza; cómo la corrupción de la muerte reemplazaba la mejilla encendida; cómo los prodigios del ojo y del cerebro eran la herencia del gusano.

He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.

One must possess many gifts … which have not been acquired by one’s own effort. And, moreover … the artist must possess the courageous soul.