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That’s all I was: a terrible flirt, coquettish and amusing. I had a few plus points, which kept me in everybody’s good graces: I was hardworking, honest and generous. I would never have refused anyone who wanted to peek at my answers, I was magnanimous with my candy, and I wasn’t stuck-up. Would all that admiration eventually have made me overconfident?

It makes me so depressed I go crazy.

– Хочу уехать. Слишком я зажился в этих местах.

You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.

In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton. The attention of the younger ones was then no longer to be gained by him. Their eyes were immediately wandering up in the street in quest of the officers, and nothing less than a very smart bonnet indeed, or a really new muslin in a shop window, could recall them.

The darling wish of his sisters was then gratified; he bought an estate in a neighbouring county to Derbyshire, and Jane and Elizabeth, in addition to every other source of happiness, were within thirty miles of each other.

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents, said

Mândrie, nădejde, dorință, ca niște ierburi strivite în inima lui, înălțau aburii unei tămâi înnebunitoare către ochii minții. Alerga la vale în iureșul aburilor de mândrie rănită, nădejde pierdută și dorință contrariată, fără de veste stârniți. Țâșneau înalțându-se în fumuri dense și înnebunitoare dinaintea ochilor săi chinuiți și se risipiră deasupră-i , până când, în sfârșit, aerul fu iarăși limpede și rece.

In nature's infinite book of secrecy,A little I can read" 1.2. 30-31.

The egg is glowing now, as if it had an energy of its own. To look at the egg gives me intense pleasure.

The future is in your hands, she resumed. She held her own hands out to us, the ancient gesture that was both an offering and an invitation, to come forward, into an embrace, an acceptance.

Сижу тут и наворачиваю ему обо всём, а сам думаю про каких-то там уток.

Истината е, че Джей Гетсби от Уест Ег, Лонг Айлънд, се е родил от платоничното си схващане за самия себе си. Той бе син на бога - израз, който, ако означава нещо, означава именно това - и трябваше да върши същата работа, която върши небесният му баща, да служи на една широко разпространена вулгарна и евтина красота.

Sometime the worst type of weapon in the world is love.

Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her.

I do my best to love everybody... I'm hard put, sometimes - baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

(When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it.) North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background.

Bureaucracy, as Hannah Arendt defined it: the rule of nobody. Roll

Devoțiunea îl părăsise. Ce preț mai avea rugăciunea, când el știa că sufletul îi tânjește după propria pierzanie? Un anumit orgoliu, un anumit respect temător îl împiedicau să-i închine lui Dumnezeu fie și o singură rugăciune de seară... Orgoliul lui întru păcat, temătoru-i respect, fără iubire, față de Dumnezeu îi spuneau că ofensa lui era prea jignitoare ca să poată fi răscumpărată în întregime sau în parte printr-un omagiu fals adus Atotvăzătorului si Atotputernicului.

You shall find there a man who is the abstract of all faults that all men follow.