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"It's a curious claim that Hungarians were conscripted into the Roman armies when they settled in the Carpathian Basin from 890-920, roughly 400 years after the Roman Empire collapsed..." — Jan 09, 2026 04:04PM
"It's a curious claim that Hungarians were conscripted into the Roman armies when they settled in the Carpathian Basin from 890-920, roughly 400 years after the Roman Empire collapsed..." — Jan 09, 2026 04:04PM
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
“Ha senki más nem törődik is velem, én törődöm magammal. Minél társtalanabb, minél magányosabb vagyok, minél kevesebb a jóakaróm, a pártfogóm, annál többre kell becsülnöm önmagamat. Megtartom az isteni törvényt, amelyet az ember szentesített. Meg akarom tartani a parancsot, amelyet még józan koromban kaptam; amikor még nem voltam beszámíthatatlan bolond, mint most vagyok. Törvények, elvek, parancsok nem a nyugodt, kísértésmentes időkre adattak, hanem a mostanihoz hasonló viharok idejére, amikor test és lélek egyaránt fellázad könyörtelen szigorúságuk ellen. S ha mégoly irgalmatlan is a törvény: megszegni nem szabad. Ha tetszésem szerint áthágom vagy kijátszom a törvényt, akkor ugyan mire jó? Én hiszek az isteni parancs sérthetetlenségében, mindig is hittem benne. Ha pillanatnyilag mégis megrendülne a hitem, ez csak azt bizonyítaná, hogy nem vagyok épelméjű. Nem, nem vagyok beszámítható állapotban: ereimben tüzesen száguldoz a vér, s a szívem olyan sebesen dobog, hogy meg sem lehet számlálni dobbanásait. Régi eszményekbe, régi elhatározásokba kell most kapaszkodni: ez az egyetlen mentsváram.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“- Hogy lehet valaki ilyen törékeny, és amellett ilyen hajlíthatatlan? - kérdezte fogcsikorgatva. - A dereka olyan a tenyeremben, mint a nádszál. - Alaposan megrázott, mikor ezt mondta. - Két ujjam között szét tudnám morzsolni, de mi hasznom lenne belőle? Hogy néz! Milyen elszántan, milyen kihívóan, milyen megvetően! Ez több, mint bátorság, ez kegyetlen diadal. Akármit csinálok a kalitkájával, nem jutok közelebb ehhez a szépséges, vad teremtéshez. Ha szétszaggatom, eltöröm a börtönét, a fogoly lélek kiszabadul: hiába vennék erőt a házán, az égbe röppen, mielőtt a halandó testet birtokomba vehetném. Én téged akarlak, lélek, a te akaratodat és energiádat, a te erényedet és ártatlanságodat, nem pusztán ezt a törékeny testet. Ha magadtól jönnél, idesimulnál a szívemre; de ha akaratod ellenére ejtelek rabul, akkor kisiklasz a karomból, mint valami lidérc, és eltűnsz, mielőtt illatodat belélegezhetném. Jane, szerelmem, jöjj!”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Cold, I was, like snow, like ivory.
I thought "He will not touch me",
but he did.
He kissed my stone-cool lips.
I lay still
as though I’d died.
He stayed.
He thumbed my marbled eyes.
He spoke -
blunt endearments, what he’d do and how.
His words were terrible.
My ears were sculpture,
stone-deaf shells.
I heard the sea.
I drowned him out.
I heard him shout.
He brought me presents, polished pebbles,
little bells.
I didn’t blink,
was dumb.
He brought me pearls and necklaces and rings.
He called them girly things.
He ran his clammy hands along my limbs.
I didn’t shrink,
played statue, shtum.
He let his fingers sink into my flesh,
he squeezed, he pressed.
I would not bruise.
He looked for marks,
for purple hearts,
for inky stars, for smudgy clues.
His nails were claws.
I showed no scratch, no scrape, no scar.
He propped me up on pillows,
jawed all night.
My heart was ice, was glass.
His voice was gravel, hoarse.
He talked white black.
So I changed tack,
grew warm, like candle wax,
kissed back,
was soft, was pliable,
began to moan,
got hot, got wild,
arched, coiled, writhed,
begged for his child,
and at the climax
screamed my head off -
all an act.
And haven’t seen him since.
Simple as that”
― The World's Wife
I thought "He will not touch me",
but he did.
He kissed my stone-cool lips.
I lay still
as though I’d died.
He stayed.
He thumbed my marbled eyes.
He spoke -
blunt endearments, what he’d do and how.
His words were terrible.
My ears were sculpture,
stone-deaf shells.
I heard the sea.
I drowned him out.
I heard him shout.
He brought me presents, polished pebbles,
little bells.
I didn’t blink,
was dumb.
He brought me pearls and necklaces and rings.
He called them girly things.
He ran his clammy hands along my limbs.
I didn’t shrink,
played statue, shtum.
He let his fingers sink into my flesh,
he squeezed, he pressed.
I would not bruise.
He looked for marks,
for purple hearts,
for inky stars, for smudgy clues.
His nails were claws.
I showed no scratch, no scrape, no scar.
He propped me up on pillows,
jawed all night.
My heart was ice, was glass.
His voice was gravel, hoarse.
He talked white black.
So I changed tack,
grew warm, like candle wax,
kissed back,
was soft, was pliable,
began to moan,
got hot, got wild,
arched, coiled, writhed,
begged for his child,
and at the climax
screamed my head off -
all an act.
And haven’t seen him since.
Simple as that”
― The World's Wife
“Ha az emberek tudnák, mikor fognak meghalni, valószínűnek tartom, hogy egyáltalán nem is élnének.”
―
―
“She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look'd down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.”
― The Lady of Shalott
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look'd down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.”
― The Lady of Shalott
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