Генри Дэвид Торо цитаты
As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into silence. Silence is audible to all men, at all times, and in all places.”
«Неделя на реках Конкорда и Мерримака», 1849
перевод: В. Гриценко, 1993
Источник: Роберт Силверберг. Умирающий изнутри // Сын человеческий. — СПб.: Эгос, 1993. — С. 423.
„Я проникаю в болото, словно в священное место… Вот где сила Природы, ее костный мозг.“
болото
Источник: Уолден, или Жизнь в лесу
Источник: приведена по Элдер А. Трейдинг с доктором Элдером.
„Читайте прежде всего лучшие книги, а то вы и совсем не успеете прочесть их.“
Источник: приведена по Толстой Л. Н. Полное собрание сочинений. Т. 41. — М., 1957.
Of course, Thoreau was a misfit and an outsider with very serious neurotic problems. When he was a young man just out of college he fell in love with a girl named Ellen Sewall, but she turned him down, and he never married. I wonder if he ever made it with anybody. Probably not. I can’t imagine Thoreau actually balling, can you? Oh, maybe he didn’t die a virgin, but I bet his sex life was lousy. Perhaps he didn’t even masturbate. Can you visualize him sitting next to that pond and whacking off? I can’t. Poor Thoreau.
Роберт Силверберг, «Умирающий изнутри», 1972
перевод: В. Гриценко
I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation. I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray? And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters. The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. God is alone — but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
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