Александрийский квартет

Лоренс Даррелл

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Аноним17 марта 2012 г.
He is a rare figure among the diplomats in that he appears to possess a vertebral column. For him the tiresome treadmill of protocol and entertainment — so like a surrealist nightmare — is full of exotic charm. He sees diplomacy through the eyes of a Douanier Rousseau.
He indulges himself with it but never allows it to engulf what remains of his intellect. I suppose the secret of his success is his tremendous idleness, which almost approaches the supernatural.
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Аноним17 марта 2012 г.
I spoke of the uselessness of art but added nothing truthful about its consolations. The solace of such work as I do with brain and heart lies in this — that only there, in the silences of the painter or the writer can reality be reordered, reworked and made to show ks significant side. Our common actions in reality are simply the sackcloth covering which hides the cloth-of-gold —
the meaning of the pattern. For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfill it in its true potential — the imagination.
Otherwise why should we hurt one another?
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Аноним17 марта 2012 г.
I spoke of the uselessness of art but added nothing truthful about its consolations. The solace of such work as I do with brain and heart lies in this — that only there, in the silences of the painter or the writer can reality be reordered, reworked and made to show ks significant side. Our common actions in reality are simply the sackcloth covering which hides the cloth-of-gold —
the meaning of the pattern. For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfill it in its true potential — the imagination.
Otherwise why should we hurt one another?
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Аноним17 марта 2012 г.
As for me I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended
like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.
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Аноним17 марта 2012 г.
Yet one touch of humour would have saved him from such dreadful comprehensive suffering. It is easy to criticise, I know. I know.
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Аноним1 февраля 2012 г.
Ах, Англия!.. Единственная в мире страна, где стыдятся бедности.
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Аноним21 января 2012 г.
Счастье нужно ждать в засаде, как перепелку или как девчонку с усталыми крыльями.
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Аноним16 января 2012 г.
Болезнь вызывает презрение, и больные об этом знают.
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Аноним16 января 2012 г.
Воспитание и умение чувствовать редко уживаются вместе, и есть прекрасный выход — заполнить, замаскировать пустоты путаным шифром хороших манер, проверенных форм сношения с внешним миром.
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Аноним29 апреля 2011 г.
Если бы ей довелось когда-нибудь действительно заглянуть мне в душу, она бы поняла, что для тех из нас, кто способен глубоко чувствовать и кто осознал неизбежную ограниченность человеческой мысли, существует только один вариант ответа — ироническая нежность и молчание.
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