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but for mine own part, it was Greek to me.

La normalità, diceva Zia Lydia, significa ciò cui si è abituati. Se qualcosa potrà non sembrarvi normale al momento, dopo un po' di tempo lo sarà. Diventerà normale." Margaret Atwood, Il racconto dell'ancella, traduzione di Camillo Pennati

Vairums cilvēku nevar visur aizbraukt, ar visiem sastapties, apceļot visas pasaules pilsētas. Mums nav ne tik daudz laika, ne naudas, ne paziņu. Tas, ko jūs meklējat, pasaulē eksistē, bet tikai vienu procentu no visa tā parastais cilvēks ierauga savām acīm. Visu pārējo viņam sniedz grāmatas.

The time at length arrives when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity; and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.

His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. Through

Existe tanta gratidão e vaidade em quase todas as afeições que é perigoso abandoná-las à sua sorte — todos podemos começar livremente, uma ligeira preferência é bastante natural, mas são poucos os que têm o coração bastante firme para amar sem receber alguma coisa em troca.

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room of the house, he was used to be free from them there;

This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. And now that I've found it, how can I give it up? Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have.

This was the noblest Roman of them all.      All the conspirators save only he      Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; [70]      He only in a general honest thought      And common good to all made one of them.      His

Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words. Maybe

In reduced circumstances you have to believe all kinds of things. I believe in thought transference now, vibrations in the ether, that sort of junk. I never used to. I

Иногда я подслушиваю разговоры в метро. Или у фонтанчиков с содовой водой. И знаете что? — Что? — Люди ни о чём не говорят. — Ну как это может быть! — Да-да. Ни о чём.Сыплют названиями — марки автомобилей, моды, плавательные бассейны и ко всему прибавляют: «Как шикарно!» Все они твердят одно и то же. Как трещотки.

for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. This

Pero soy lento en el pensar, estoy lleno de normas interiores que actuan como frenos sobre mis deseos

And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them.

Tutto sembrava anzi portarla a chiarire finalmente i suoi sentimenti, e non aveva mai capito così sinceramente di amarlo tanto come ora, quando l'amore era vano.

Sólo estoy dispuesta a actuar de la manera más acorde, en mi opinión, con mi futura felicidad, sin tener en cuenta lo que usted o cualquier otra persona igualmente ajena a mí, piense.

Nature might stand up      And say to all the world, ‘This was a man!

We said all this in my kitchen, drinking coffee, sitting at my kitchen table, in those low, intense voices we used for such arguments when we were in our early twenties; a carry-over from college. The

In reduced circumstances you have to believe all kinds of things.