Александрийский квартет

Лоренс Даррелл

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Аноним4 мая 2012 г.
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine.
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Аноним4 мая 2012 г.
But now, then, tell me — which of us was the greater liar? I cheated you, you cheated yourself.
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Аноним4 мая 2012 г.
All of a sudden there seemed nowhere in particular to go. Every impulse, every desire had faltered and faded out.
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Аноним4 мая 2012 г.
He proceeded slowly, for to register an idea in a Moslem mind is like trying to paint a wall: one must wait for the first coat to dry (the first idea) before applying a second.
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Аноним4 мая 2012 г.
He proceeded slowly, for to register an idea in a Moslem mind is like trying to paint a wall: one must wait for the first coat to dry (the first idea) before applying a second.
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Аноним4 мая 2012 г.
They were past speech and reflection — the diminished figures of an unforgotten, unregretted past, infinitely dear now because irrecoverable.
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Аноним3 мая 2012 г.
She had too great a tendency to believe what people said.
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Аноним3 мая 2012 г.
‘In maters of business, a diplomat has no friends’ he said stiffly, feeling that he spoke in the very accents of Pontius Pilate.
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Аноним3 мая 2012 г.
Heartbeats are mercifully inaudible to anyone but oneself.
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Аноним1 мая 2012 г.
I just don’t see what D. H. Lawrence has to offer a pasha with seventeen wives, though I believe I know which one of them is happiest….
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