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...I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere.

-Uno es valiente cuando, sabiendo que ha perdido ya antes de empezar, empieza a pesar de todo y sigue hasta el final pase lo que pase.

Superman?’ Clevinger cried. ‘Superman?’ ‘Supraman,’ Yossarian corrected.

Departe, de-a lungul cursului leneșului Liffey, catarge zvelte tărcau cerul și, mai departe încă, urzeala tulbure a orașului zăcea prosternată în pâclă.

How do you generalize? War is hell, but that’s not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead. The truths are contradictory.

There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from.

(...) cause after a request like that there's always a next time, wether you say yes or no.

Be brave! Let’s remember our duty and perform it without complaint. There will be a way out. God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they’ve gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger. The weak shall fall and the strong shall survive and not be defeated!

В крышке от унитаза и то больше чуткости, чем в этом самом Эрнесте.

You loved me too?" he repeated.

would

their indifference towards Jane when not immediately before them restored Elizabeth to the enjoyment of all her former dislike.

but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself

O mică trupă de țărani napolitani își repetau pașii de dans în capătul capelei, unii rotindu-și brațele deasupra capetelor, alții legănându-și coșurile cu violete de hârtie și făcând reverențe.

I do not like 'But yet,' it does allayThe good precedence; fie upon 'But yet'!'But yet' is as a gaoler to bring forthSome monstrous malefactor.

He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large thoughts into small, cryptic packets of language.

Trust me, he says; which in itself has never been a talisman, carries no guarantee. But

Freedom to isn't the same as freedom from."-The Handmaids Tale

Es inevitablemente triste mirar con nuevos ojos cosas a las que ya hemos aplicado nuestra propia capacidad de enfoque.