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robot5 ноября 2011 г.Читать далееI have dutyfully read through several pages of the book, and there is nothing in the world that I like more than reading, but Dante's ideas are so gloomy and complicated that I suspect he is no writer for a woman, certainly not for an English woman. Also his face frightens me, so critical and severe. After looking at his portrait, beautifully engraved at the beginning of the book, I begin to fear that I shall see that face looking over my shoulder as I sit gazing into the looking glass. No wonder Beatrice would have nothing to do with him.
454- robot5 ноября 2011 г.
Unaccustomed cheapness is something that takes much explanation in the world around us.
451 - robot5 ноября 2011 г.
Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.
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Mysterium_Dream19 июля 2021 г.Когда человек мертв, как мертв был Эльмо, для него не бывает идей больших и малых, истинных или ложных, оригинальных или тривиальных; одни идеи раздражают, другие приносят успокоение, и в этом состоит единственное различие между ними.
3122- robot29 октября 2016 г.
As we acquire weight in the world, we lose it within ourselves. Maturity is always in part a matter of emptying and contracting.
347 - robot29 октября 2016 г.
He tried to smile, to show he had a sense of humour which could help him to cope with tasteless questions.
342 - robot29 октября 2016 г.
The survival of the lost beloved being so incomparably more afflicting than his or her death, the bereaved is the more likely to vary bitter grief with occasional episodes of hysterical elation, as the dying man, isolated amid the Polar or Himalayan snows, has quarter hours of almost peaceful confidence that of course he will emerge, even believing that he sees how.
338 - robot29 октября 2016 г.
Happy, happy Elvira, renewed, strengthened, and made lovelier than ever by just a little suffering;
338 - robot5 ноября 2011 г.
I have noticed several times that it is to beginners that strange things happen, and often, I think, to beginners only.
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