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-Puede ser un vicio escaparse así de la realidad, es
como una droga. Porque escuchame, tu realidad, tu realidad, no es solamente esta celda. Si estás leyendo algo, estudiando algo, ya trascendés la celda, ¿me entendés?

Yo por eso leo y estudio todo el día.

The Revolution of March, 1917, brought no economic relief to the proletariat. It appeared from our examination of the trend of wages that at no time during the War were real wages of industrial workmen so low as in 1917, and we may add that they continued to decline, even more rapidly than in 1917, in the following years, or until 1921 or 1922.

Pg 201

Julien's eloquence was thus another offence. Forced to take notice of him, his comrades arrived at two words to express the sum of the horror he inspired: they nicknamed him MARTIN LUTHER; above all, they told themselves, because of that infernal logic which made him so proud.

Pg 28

He borrowed his repugnance from Rousseau's Confessions. It was the sole book through which his imagination formed any idea of the larger world.

Pg 44

Es difícil acostumbrarse. Son veinte años justos. Todos los días. Yo hablo poco. Ella también hablaba poco. Además, no tuvimos hijos. Eramos ella y yo, nada más. Del trabajo a casa, y de casa al trabajo. Pero ella y yo juntos. No importaba que no habláramos mucho. Una cosa es estar callado y saberla a ella enfrente, callada, y otra muy distinta estar callado frente a la pared. O frente a su retrato.

But what are human joys and sorrows to me, a wandering officer, especially one with a post-horse order, on official business!

Pg 28


I was so high above the world, a childish feeling, I won't argue, but in distancing ourselves from society's conventions and drawing closer to nature, we unwittingly become children. All we have acquired passes from our soul, which is made over such as it once was and will likely be again some day.

Pg 28

I was so high above the world, a childish feeling, I won't argue, but in distancing ourselves from society's conventions and drawing closer to nature, we unwittingly become children. All we we have acquired passes from our soul, which is made over such as it once was and will likely be again some day.

Pg 43

But one's got to make the effort," she said, sententiously, "one's got play the game. After all, everyone belongs to every one else."