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I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, then at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish it were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one's life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow.(...)I'm sorry there is so much pain in this story. I'm sorry it's in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.I've tried to put some of the good things in as well. Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?

Women can't hold property anymore, she said. It's a new law.

Bir an ona aşıkmışım gibi hissettim. Ama ben ölçüp tartan, uzun uzun düşünen, kuralları olan biriyim, bu da arzularımı frenlememi sağlar.

the event of an evening which had raised such splendid expectations. He had rather hoped that

I might as well inquire," replied she, "why with so evident a desire of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.

I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night--in the moments before I pass off into sleep--ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem.

You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact.

It can’t last forever. Others have thought suchthings, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn’tlast forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.

Ведь Дэзи была молода, а в ее искусственном мире цвели орхидеи и господствовал легкий, приятный снобизм, и оркестры каждый год вводили в моду новые ритмы, отражая в мелодиях всю печаль и двусмысленность жизни. Под стон саксофонов, ночи напролет выпевавших унылые жалобы «Бийл-стрит блюза», сотни золотых и серебряных туфелек толкли на паркете сверкающую пыль. Даже в сизый час чаепитий иные гостиные сотрясал непрерывно этот сладкий несильный озноб, и знакомые лица мелькали то здесь, то там, словно лепестки облетевшей розы, гонимые по полу дыханием тоскующих труб.

can

now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought

Naprosto zato što to što smo bili poraženi sto godina pre no što smo i počeli boj nije razlog da ne pokušamo da pobedimo.

How can you hate Hitler so bad an‘ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home?

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

  And ye that live and move, fair Creatures, tell,   Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?   Not of my self; by some great Maker then,   In goodness and in power praeeminent;   Tell me, how may I know him, how adore,   From whom I have that thus I move and live,   And feel that I am happier then I know.

The driver is going over it with a chamois, lovingly. This at least hasn't changed, the way men caress good cars. He's

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real.

e aveva intenzione di invitarmi da tanto, ma una strana combinazione di circostanze glielo aveva impedito –