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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 –

Poseo bastantes defectos, pero creo que no proceden de mi entendimiento.

She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind—in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything, she was still dear to him. Perhaps he had been civil only because he felt himself at ease; yet there had been that in his voice which was not like ease. Whether he had felt more of pain or of pleasure in seeing her she could not tell, but he certainly had not seen her with composure.

There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they 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

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcolm.

Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

I want to keep on living, in any form. I resign my body freely, to the uses of others. They can do what they like with me. I am abject.I feel, for the first time, their true power.

But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain