The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

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ViktoriaGorbunova5 декабря 2024 г.
В странах Европы, а затем в США лозунг «Верните ночь» с 1970-х гг. объединяет движение против насилия над женщинами; помимо прочего, был лозунгом ночного женского марша протеста против порнографии в 1978 г. в Сан-Франциско.
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Loreen4 сентября 2024 г.
There's a certain consolation to be taken from routine.
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Loreen4 сентября 2024 г.
Death makes me hungry. Maybe it's because I've been emptied; or maybe it's the body's way of seeing to it that I remain alive, continue to repeat its bedrock prayer: I am, I am.
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Loreen3 сентября 2024 г.
Fear is a powerful stimulant.
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Loreen2 сентября 2024 г.
A movie about the past is not the same as the past.
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Loreen2 сентября 2024 г.
Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
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Loreen2 сентября 2024 г.
There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Loreen1 сентября 2024 г.
When I was younger, imagining age, I would think, Maybe you appreciate things more when you don't have much time left. I forgot to include the loss of energy.
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Loreen1 сентября 2024 г.
You can't help what you feel, Moira once said, but you can help how you behave.
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Loreen1 сентября 2024 г.
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket. I wish I could see in the dark, better than I do. Night has fallen, then. I feel it pressing down on me like a stone.
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