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“...his heart had positively begun to beat to the time of suspense...The unspoken had come up, and there was a crisis - neither could have said how long it lasted - during which they were reduced, for all interchange, to looking at each other on a quite an inordinate scale.”
― The Golden Bowl
― The Golden Bowl
“Words ruin one’s thoughts, paper makes them ridiculous, and even while one is still glad to get something ruined and something ridiculous down on paper, one’s memory manages to lose hold of even this ruined and ridiculous something. Paper can turn an enormity into a triviality, an absurdity.”
― The Lime Works
― The Lime Works
“...a new force given to individual initiatives, a need to smash things up, to leap over fences, to break laws – all this, at the start, made the war acceptable. It was confused with freedom, and discipline was then accepted in the belief that it was lacking.”
― Fear
― Fear
“Но вспять безумцев не поворотить,
Они уже согласны заплатить.
Любой ценой — и жизнью бы рискнули,
Чтобы не дать порвать, чтоб сохранить
Волшебную невидимую нить,
Которую меж ними протянули…”
―
Они уже согласны заплатить.
Любой ценой — и жизнью бы рискнули,
Чтобы не дать порвать, чтоб сохранить
Волшебную невидимую нить,
Которую меж ними протянули…”
―
“But were ideals, after all, meant to be realised? No, a thousand times no! We might long for the stars, but should we ever reach them? No, hope, not realization, was the most beautiful thing in life: "L'espérance, toute trompeuse qu'elle soit, sert au moins à nous mener à la fin de la vie par un chemin agréable". La Rochefoucauld said that...”
― Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
― Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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