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Henry James
“...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.”
Henry James, The Golden Bowl

Thomas Mann
“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...”
Thomas Mann , Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
tags: hope, life

Seneca
“Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own: let them put their preaching into practice.”
Seneca , Letters from a Stoic

“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…”
Visotsky

“Sentía que dentro del pecho le pataleaba la emoción, como un ser vivo más grande que el seno que lo contiene, y se desahogaba con risas frenéticas, o con repentinos y ardientes chorretazos de lágrimas. Ni era posible decir si aquello era en ambos felicidad o una pena lacerante, porque uno y otro se sentían como heridos por un aguijón que les llegaba al alma, y atormentados por el deseo de un más allá.”
Benito Perez Galdos,, Tristana

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