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Desert_Rose24 июня 2022 г.When you move, your worries follow you. If you’re only staying somewhere for four weeks, you can laugh at everything – even the little unpleasantnesses. They don’t concern you. If you stay there forever, though, you have to be involved. ‘It’s beautiful here,’ Charles V said once to a prior whose monastery he was visiting. ‘Transeuntibus!’ replied the prior. ‘Beautiful? Yes, if you’re passing through.’
4211- Desert_Rose23 июня 2022 г.Читать далее
She looked about herself. Everything here, down to the plaster on the walls, the putty in the window-frames, the lino floor and the door-hinges – everything was counted, checked, listed and supervised. There was nothing here that was not subject to her rule. She felt that if she glared at the fireplace, the fire would burn more quietly. This was her empire. It was for this reason that Frau Adriani didn’t like going out with the children; she spoiled their walks in any way she could, because nature wouldn’t stand to attention for her. Her will rampaged through the spacious villa, which had long ceased to be an ordinary house as far as she was concerned – it was her absolute domain, a world apart. Her world. She kneaded the children. Every day, she moulded her forty children, her servants, her nieces – her husband didn’t count. She played excruciatingly pleasurable games with these live figures, and continually checkmated them. Her will always prevailed. There was no secret behind her success: she believed in her victory, she could work like a carthorse, and she didn’t waste her emotions on others.
She thought she was unique, Frau Adriani. But she had brothers and sisters all over the world.4112 - Desert_Rose24 июня 2022 г.
But that was not all. The atavistic drive of mankind was rampant in her: for power, power, power. Nothing hurts such a creature more than an unexpected rebellion. A world collapses. Spartacus . . . So many children were suffering here. I could have hit her. She shrank away.
3145 - Desert_Rose23 июня 2022 г.
And now I was a strange man going to a wicked, strange woman. I quickly played through the different scenarios of Hansel and the witch; ‘but I’m so shy’ . . . and then I recovered. It took much less time to happen than to write. It was over. A wise Indian said, ‘You have to kill the tiger in your mind, before the hunt–the rest is a formality.’
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‘I mean they’re always so terribly chic. Even when they write about being broke, they tell a stylish version of it. They seem to have both feet off the ground. Will a newspaper ever talk about what it’s really like: how you start scrimping on the twentieth of each month, how things get miserable and petty sometimes, how you can rarely afford to take a taxi, not to mention buying a car. Instead, they feed us their ridiculous cult of fashionable living . . . do any of us live in proper flats?’
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We were in the middle of our holidays.
Swimming in the lake; lying naked on the shore, in a sheltered spot; soaking up the sun, so that you rolled home at noon, wonderfully dozy, and drunk on the light, the air and the water; quiet; eating; drinking; sleeping; resting – holiday.261 - Desert_Rose22 июня 2022 г.
She was so alone here. Quite alone among the other thirty-nine girls, and she was afraid. Her life consisted of nothing but fear. Fear of the Limb of Satan and of the older girls, who would tell on her whenever they could, fear of the next day and of the day before, from which things might come to light. Fear of everything, everything. The child didn’t sleep – her eyes made holes in the dark.
253 - Desert_Rose21 июня 2022 г.Читать далее
The customs. A man entered the compartment and politely enquired whether we . . . and we said no, we hadn’t. And then he went away again.
“Can you see the point of that?’ asked Lydia.
‘I can’t,’ I said, ‘it’s just a game and a religion, the cult of the fatherland, which happens to be a blind spot of mine. I mean, look – this business with fatherlands and so on, they can only play that game for as long as they have enemies and frontiers. Otherwise, you’d never know where one stopped and the other began. You couldn’t have that now, could you ...?’269 - Desert_Rose21 июня 2022 г.
It’s funny, isn’t it,’ I said. ‘When people think about Sweden, they think: Swedish punch, awfully cold, Ivar Kreuger, match-boxes, awfully cold, blonde women and awfully cold. It’s not that cold at all.’
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Sumirae11 февраля 2011 г.Wenn einer nichts zu tun hat, dann holt er die andern, und dann machen sie eine Konferenz.
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