The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho

Патерсон Джозеф

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darinakh28 сентября 2023 г.
What is attractive beyond resisting to one, is a matter of great indifference to another. What in one culture and place will be considered beauty, is subject to local matters of taste and habituation. However, what we are told represents beauty can on occasion be contradicted by what we find to be attractive, directly before us.
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darinakh25 сентября 2023 г.
The servants’ secret weapon: Invisibility.
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darinakh25 сентября 2023 г.
All the best parts of the theatre are hidden away from the audience, laddy. We must see beneath the marionettes’ skirts to know how the strings are attached and who manipulates them.
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darinakh25 сентября 2023 г.
If I would be offended by every gentleman who looked at me askance, why my life would be full of conflict and miserable indeed.
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darinakh28 сентября 2023 г.
These men – and that woman! – were playing for themselves – an act of liberty – not judged or caring to be judged by any outside critic and relying solely on each other to guide their work.
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darinakh25 сентября 2023 г.
I knew then that I was the most fortunate of blacks – or whites. Slavery travels hand in hand with Poverty – and they are not plagues that confine themselves to merely blighting the lives of Africans – the wicked trade in human flesh is no respecter of shade. Humankind is the cruellest of creatures, using others as beasts in a way that only the barbarians of Afric are said to use their people – said, I must note, by those who have never visited that continent in their lives.
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darinakh27 сентября 2023 г.
It is simply a childish way of skirting the truth: we are born alone, and we die alone, trapped in our own version of purgatory or hell, before the heavenly release from pain.
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darinakh25 сентября 2023 г.
Oh, that one may smile and smile and be a villain.
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darinakh25 сентября 2023 г.
It was he who taught me to stand tall and say who I was, and what I was about. He taught me to see myself as he did. A lad, capable of anything.
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darinakh29 сентября 2023 г.
Mark how words have power to make one person known to another – if the object of affection reciprocates with the honesty your mother showed me.
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