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God, how I hate it when somebody yells "Good luck!" at me when I'm leaving somewhere. It's depressing.

My dear," replied her husband, "I have two small favours to request. First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the present occasion; and secondly, of my room. I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.

– Как по-твоему, отчего Страшила Рэдли не сбежал из дому?Дилл протяжно вздохнул и повернулся на бок. И сказал через плечо:– Может, ему некуда бежать…

He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable beginning of the inevitable end.

Its very memory gives a shape to fear.   Death could scarce be more bitter than that place!

We had fancied our task would be different, only to find we were to be trained for heroism as though we were circus-ponies. But we soon accustomed ourselves to it. We learned in fact that some of these things were necessary, but the rest merely show. Soldiers have a fine nose for such distinctions.

Well, for instance, when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said. ‘The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

We are two legged wombs, that's all: sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices.

Bir şeyi çok iyi yapıyorsanız, bir süre sonra, dikkatli olmazsanız gösteriş yapmaya başlıyorsunuz. Ve sonunda da iyi olmaktan çıkıyor yaptığınız.

You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?

You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

He mashed hundreds of cakes of GI soap into the sweet potatoes just to show that people have the taste of Philistines and don’t know the difference between good and bad.

Eliza," said George, "people that have friends, and houses, and lands, and money, and all those things, can't love as we do, who have nothing but each other. ... And your loving me,—why, it was almost like raising one from the dead! I've been a new man ever since! And now, Eliza, I'll give my last drop of blood, but they shall not take you from me. Whoever gets you must walk over my dead body.

The hope is that here, as in other respects, the reader is invited into a critical and collaborative venture, seeing what Dante sees and constructing along with him (as he himself asks his reader to do, for instance, in Paradiso 13: 1–18) the relationships that define us humans in our own participation in existence.

ignominious

İnsan bazı şeyleri tam hatırlayamıyor..... Hatırlayamayışımın nedeni; felaket üzgündüm. Birşeylere üzülüyorsam, tuvalete gitmem gerekse bile gitmem. Üzülmekten gidemem. Üzülmeyi bırakıp gidemem.

С твоя здрав разум си тъйискрено сляпа за безразсъдствата и глупостите на другите! Всекиможе да се преструва на искрен — това го виждаме навсякъде. Но даси искрен без показност и без преструвка — да извличаш самодоброто от всекиго и да го правиш още по-добро, без изобщо даспоменаваш несъвършенствата, — това го можеш само ти.

For reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County, autumn turned to winter that year.

I only raped her once, he explained. Yossarian was aghast. But you killed her, Aarfy! You killed her! Oh, I had to do that after I raped her, Aarfy replied in his most condescending manner.

But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man….