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“And so, now, it is almost midnight of the first day, and I have broken my resolution to go to bed
early - postponing sleep, and thereby the inevitable waking up in tomorrow. Another device of escape.”
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early - postponing sleep, and thereby the inevitable waking up in tomorrow. Another device of escape.”
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“It is so safer not to feel. Not to let the world touch me.”
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“وكانت فكرة أن أقتل نفسي قد رسخت في عقلي، بهدوء، مثل شجرة أو زهرة.”
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“Grises como espejismos al fondo de sus desfiladeros de granito, las calles calientes temblaban al sol, las capotas de los coches hervían y centellaban, y el polvo seco, cargado de escoria, se me metía en los ojos y me bajaba por la garganta.”
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“You've had all you can take of good-looking vacuums and shallow socialites. So you try to be basic. You are such a basic character yourself, anyway.”
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“Самі себе патрали, коли щось ішло не так.”
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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.)”
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“Buddy wrote that he was probably falling in love with a nurse who also had TB, but his mother had rented a cottage in the Adirondacks for the month of July, and if I came along with her, he might well find his feeling for the nurse was a mere infatuation.
I snatched up a pencil and crossed out Buddy’s message. Then I turned the letter paper over and on the opposite side wrote that I was engaged to a simultaneous interpreter and never wanted to see Buddy again as I did not want to give my children a hypocrite for a father.”
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I snatched up a pencil and crossed out Buddy’s message. Then I turned the letter paper over and on the opposite side wrote that I was engaged to a simultaneous interpreter and never wanted to see Buddy again as I did not want to give my children a hypocrite for a father.”
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“In sullen light of the inauspicious day.
Now, free, by hazard's quirk, from the common ill
Knocking our brothers down, we strike a stance
Most mock-heroic, to cloak our waking awe
At this rare rumpus which no man control :
Meek and proud both fall; stark violence
Lays all walls waste; private estates are torn,
Ransacked in the public eye. We forsake
Our lone luck now, compelled by bond, by blood
To keep some unsaid pact; perhaps concern
Is helpless here, quite extra, yet we must make
The gesture, bend and hold the prone mans head
And so we sail toward cities, streets and homes
Of other men, where statues celebrate
Brave acts played out in peace, in war; all dangers
End: green shores appear; we assume our names
Our luggage, as docks halt our brief epic; no debt
Survives arrival; we walk the plank with strangers”
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Now, free, by hazard's quirk, from the common ill
Knocking our brothers down, we strike a stance
Most mock-heroic, to cloak our waking awe
At this rare rumpus which no man control :
Meek and proud both fall; stark violence
Lays all walls waste; private estates are torn,
Ransacked in the public eye. We forsake
Our lone luck now, compelled by bond, by blood
To keep some unsaid pact; perhaps concern
Is helpless here, quite extra, yet we must make
The gesture, bend and hold the prone mans head
And so we sail toward cities, streets and homes
Of other men, where statues celebrate
Brave acts played out in peace, in war; all dangers
End: green shores appear; we assume our names
Our luggage, as docks halt our brief epic; no debt
Survives arrival; we walk the plank with strangers”
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“Quizás, cuando nos encontramos deseando todo, estamos peligrosamente cerca de no desear nada.”
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