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wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life. Doesn’t make it right, said Jem stolidly. He beat his fist softly on his knee. You just can’t convict a man on evidence like that—you can’t. You couldn’t, but they could and did.

All this is pure speculation. I don't really know what men used to say. I had only their words for it.

What did you expect? he murmured. Time passes.

By now I can recognize the women at a glance...with faces that are either grimor good-humored, depending on the mood of their husbands.

agonizingly aware of the money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for a few words in the right key

But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes." "I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party.

But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.

But I love thee as I love what I love most in the world and I love thee more.

A man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.

I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. Which it would be, which it is.

You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed the high art.

But they made no sound, and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

Гордость скорее связана с нашим собственным о себе мнением, тщеславие же - с мнением других людей, которое нам бы хотелось, чтобы они составили о нас

Ти също имаш деца, но аз съм по-стар от теб. Когато моите деца пораснат, аз ще бъда стар човек, ако изобщо го доживея, но сега засега аз не съм… Ако нямат доверие в мене, няма да имат доверие в никого.

It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian say the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

Poor wretches, what evil has come on you? Your heads and faces and the knees underneath you are shrouded in night and darkness; a sound of wailing has broken out, your cheeks are covered with tears, and the walls bleed, and the fine supporting pillars. All the forecourt is huddled with ghosts, the yard is full of them as they flock down to the underworld and the darkness. The sun has perished out of the sky, and a foul mist has come over.

...no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter... ...to institute an effective totalitarian system or indeed any system at all, you must offer some benefits and freedoms, at least to a privileged few, in return to those you remove...

With her waiting she had lost the strength of her thighs, the firmness of her breasts, her habit of tenderness, but she kept the madness of her heart intact.

Gatsby