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„Мы помним моменты, а не дни.“

„Смерть — это покой, но мысль о смерти не даёт нам покоя.“

„Придёт смерть, и у неё будут твои глаза.“

„Мстить за обиду — значит лишать себя удовольствия сетовать на несправедливость.“

„Женщина никогда не выходит замуж из-за денег, любой из них хватает ума, прежде чем выйти за миллионера, влюбиться в него.“

„Тот, кто не принимает моду вовремя, перенимает её год спустя, когда она уже устарела.“

„За каждую роскошь нужно платить, а роскошью является все, начиная с бытности в этом мире.“

“You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.”

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“I started explaining to her that nothing is vulgar in itself but that talking and thinking make it so.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.”

Источник: The Beach (1941), Chapter 6, p. 36

“All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“The act—the act—must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.”

Источник: The Beach (1941), Chapter 4, p. 27

“The real affliction of old age is remorse.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.”

Источник: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter VIII, p. 49

“Don't mix wine and women, Doro.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“I realised that Nuto was quite right when he said that to live in a hovel or in a palace was one and the same thing, that blood is the same colour everywhere, and that everybody wants to be rich and in love and make their fortune.”

Источник: The Beach (1941), Chapter 2, p. 13

“Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.”

Источник: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter XXIX, p. 167

“Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life.
Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“The whole plain was like a battlefield—or a farmyard. There was a reddish light and I jumped down, cramped and stiff with cold; a sliver of moon was piercing the low clouds and it looked like a gash from a knife and bathed the plain in a blood-red light. I stayed looking at it for a while. It terrified me.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?”

Источник: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter XI, p. 67

“Nuto, who had never really gone away, still wanted to understand the world and change it, and upset the cycle of the seasons. Or perhaps he didn't, and still believed only in the moon. But I, who didn't believe in the moon, knew that when all was said and done only the seasons matter and they are in your bones and they nurtured you when you were a boy.”

Источник: The devil in the hills (1949), Chapter 18, p. 354

“But she didn't laugh. "When you have children," she said, staring at her glass, "you accept life. Do you accept life?"”

Источник: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter X, p. 60

“I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.”

Источник: Among women only (1949), Chapter 9, p. 212

“There is a reason why I came back to this place—came back here instead of to Canelli, Barbaresco or Alba. It is almost certain that I was not born here; where I was born I don't know. There is not a house or a bit of ground or a handful of dust hereabouts of which I can say: "This was me before I was born."”

Источник: The devil in the hills (1949), Chapter 9, p. 319

“Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?”

Incipit
The moon and the bonfire (1950)

“It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.”

Источник: The devil in the hills (1949), Chapter 5, p. 306

“We obtain things when we no longer want them.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.”

Источник: The Beach (1941), Chapter 9, p. 48

“It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“Not believing in anything is also a religion.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.”

Источник: The house on the hill (1949), Chapter 15, p. 139

“A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.”

This Business of Living (1935-1950)