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“All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.”
― Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
― Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
“Είδα το Διηνέκη να σκύβει για να δει αν ο Αλέξανδρος ανέπνεε ακόμη. Έπειτα ακούμπησε το αυτί του στο στήθος του νέου. [...] Ο Διηνέκης πίεσε το αυτί του ακόμα πιο πολύ στο στήθος του Αλέξανδρου. Μπορούσε να διακρίνει τον ήχο της δικής του καρδιάς, που βροντοχτυπούσε τώρα στο στήθος του, από τ χτύπο που τόσο απελπισμένα αναζητούσε στο στήθος του προστατευομένου του; Αφουγκράστηκε αρκετή ώρα. Τελικά, ο Διηνέκης ανασηκώθηκε. Η ράχη του φάνηκε να σηκώνει το βάρος κάθε πληγής και κάθε θανάτου, όλων των χρόνων που είχε ζήσει. Σήκωσε τρυφερά το κεφάλι του νέου βάζοντας το χέρι του πίσω στο σβέρκο του. Μια κραυγή γεμάτη θλίψη που δεν είχα ξανακούσει ποτέ βγήκε από το στήθος του αφέντη μου. Η πλάτη του τραντάχτηκε, οι ώμοι του ρίγησαν. Σήκωσε το άψυχο κορμί του Αλέξανδρου και το κράτησε στην αγκαλιά του. Τα χέρια του νέου άνδρα κρέμονταν άτονα, σαν της κούκλας. Ο Πολύνικος γονάτισε δίπλα στον αφέντη μου, έριξε έναν μανδύα στους ώμους του και τον εκράτησε όσο εκείνος έκλαιγε με λυγμούς.”
― Gates of Fire
― Gates of Fire
“It disappointed me when I discerned as an adolescent that my father had married my mother only for her beauty, but this was before I realized that parents disappoint us in many ways and it is best not to expect anything of them at all, for chances are that they won't be able to deliver it.”
― The People in the Trees
― The People in the Trees
“For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“Beautiful people make even those of us who proudly consider ourselves unmoved by another's appearance dumb with admiration and fear and delight, and struck by the profound, enervating awareness of how inadequate we are, how nothing, not intelligence or education or money, can usurp or overpower or deny beauty.”
― The People in the Trees
― The People in the Trees
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