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Wickham

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives your pleasure.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the

I’ll have to bring another one, she said. Such a waste. What was you doing on the floor like that? She

Something could be exchanged, we thought, some deal made, some tradeoff, we still had our bodies.

We long for Saturdays because that means books. We’re like a lot of little children with a present. Ordinary people don’t know how much books can mean to someone who’s cooped up. Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the wireless.

Era uno de esos tíos que consideran una mariconada no partirte cuarenta dedos cuando te dan la mano.

—¿Cómo se va a West Egg? —me preguntó, despistado. Se lo dije. Y, cuando proseguí mi camino, ya no me sentía solo. Yo era un guía, un explorador, uno de los primeros colonos. Aquel hombre me había conferido el honor de ser ciudadano del lugar. Y así, con la luz del sol y la explosión espléndida de las hojas que crecían en los árboles como crecen las cosas en las películas a cámara rápida, tuve la certeza bien conocida de que la vida vuelve a empezar con el verano.

by allowance" and "loving with personal love." This distinction applies to books as well as to men and women; and in the case of the not very numerous authors who are the objects of the personal affection, it brings a curious consequence with it. There

Podría fácilmente perdonarle su orgullo si no hubiese mortificado el mío.

–Querida, no pienses en cosas tristes. Tengamos esperanzas en cosas mejores. Animémonos con la idea de que puedo sobrevivirte.

if it never happened to you, not ever, you would be like a mutant, a creature from outer space. Everyone knew that.

This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.

¡Había tanto que leer, por una parte, y tanta salud que aspirar del aire nuevo y vivificador!

El buen filósofo sólo saca beneficio de donde lo hay.

La imaginación de una dama va muy rápido y salta de la admiración al amor y del amor al matrimonio en un momento.

Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it would have to be, he said. From

It’s going to be all right, I said, prayed in my head. Oh let it. Let us cross, let us across. Just this once and I’ll do anything. What I thought I could do for whoever was listening that would be of the least use or even interest I’ll never know.

Bu iki rahibenin bana Katolik olup olmadığımı sormadıklarına bu nedenle memnun olmuştum. Sorsalardı, konuşmamız berbat olmazdı, ama ben de herhalde farklı davranırdım.