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Аноним26 мая 2012 г.Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practises. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of good will carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
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Аноним26 мая 2012 г.They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price.
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Аноним26 мая 2012 г.It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long.
Couldn't the test of man have been carried out in fewer
years? Couldn't we have committed our first major sin at
seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have
clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old death bed?7127
Аноним20 января 2012 г.He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that that is where we really belong.
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Аноним18 ноября 2011 г.— Тут у меня немножко шоколаду, — сказал мистер Томас. — Сам я его не люблю. Вот, получайте. На всех, вероятно, не хватит. На всех никогда не хватает.
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Аноним23 июня 2017 г.Женщинам трудно жить, если они не могут гордиться хоть чем-нибудь: собой, своим мужем, своей обстановкой.
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Аноним26 мая 2012 г."I'd miss you," he said.
"No, Ticki, you wouldn't," she said, and surprised him
by the range of her sad spasmodic understanding.6102
Аноним26 мая 2012 г."Darling," he said, "I love you' It was how he always began. Comfort, like the act of sex, developed a routine.
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Аноним26 мая 2012 г.There was always a blacker corruption
elsewhere to be pointed at. The scandalmongers of the
Secretariat fulfilled a useful purpose they kept alive the
idea that no one was to be trusted. That was better than
complacence. Why, he wondered, swerving the car to avoid
a dead pye-dog, do I love this place so much? Is it because
here human nature hasn't had time to disguise itself?6102