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innashpitzberg9 октября 2014 г.Читать далее“Living modernly’s living quickly,” she went on. “You can’t cart a waggon-load of ideals and romanticisms about with you these days. When you travel by aeroplane, you must leave your heavy baggage behind. The good old-fashioned soul was all right when people lived slowly. But it’s too ponderous nowadays. There’s no room for it in the aeroplane.”
“Not even for a heart?” asked Walter. “I don’t so much care about the soul.” He had cared a great deal about the soul once. But now that his life no more consisted in reading the philosophers, he was somehow less interested in it. “But the heart,” he added, “the heart . . .”387- innashpitzberg9 октября 2014 г.
Sensuality and sentiment, desire and tenderness are as often friends as they are enemies.
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Better to remain rigidly and loyally oneself. Oneself? But this question of identity was precisely one of Philip’s chronic problems.
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His life with Susan was a succession of scenes in every variety of emotional key.
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sunflower2828 сентября 2014 г.Слова, слова, слова. Они отгораживают нас от мира. Почти все время мы соприкасаемся не с вещами, а с заменяющими их словами.
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There are many thoughts and feelings, but only a few gestures; and the mask has only half a dozen grimaces to express a thousand meanings.
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He’s Peter Pan à la Dostoevsky-cum-de Musset-cum-the-Nineties-cum-Bunyan-cum-Byron and the Marquis de Sade.
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“Baudelaire was the last poet of the Middle Ages as well as the first modern.
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The clock ticked. The moving instant which, according to Sir Isaac Newton, separates the infinite past from the infinite future advanced inexorably through the dimension of time. Or, if Aristotle was right, a little more of the possible was every instant made real; the present stood still and drew into itself the future,
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“No, seriously, have you read Anatole France’s Thaïs?”
Spandrell shook his head.
“Read it,” said Rampion. “Read it. It’s elementary, of course. A boy’s book. But one mustn’t grow up without having read all the boys’ books. Read it and then come and talk to me again about asceticism and mystical experiences.”375