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Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„«Хью поглядел вниз, на голубенькие полевые цветы, схожие с незабудками, которые ухитрились вырасти меж шпал. У этих малюток жизнь тоже нелегкая: что за чудовищное черное солнце проносится с воем над ними чуть ли не каждую минуту?“

Лаури, Малькольм

цветы
Источник: проза

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Хью молчал, а с дерева сорвался еще лист, прошумел в воздухе и, трепетно клонясь, повис на кусте.“

Лаури, Малькольм

дерево
Источник: романы

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Благоухание парного молока, ванили и полевых цветов пронизывало дремотный воздух. И все было залито солнцем.“

Лаури, Малькольм

воздух
Источник: романы

Лаури, Малькольм: Цитаты на английском языке

“Suddenly he saw them, the bottles of aguardiente, of anís, of jerez, of Highland Queen, the glasses, a babel of glasses—towering, like the smoke from the train that day—built to the sky, then falling, the glasses toppling and crashing, falling downhill from the Generalife Gardens, the bottles breaking, bottles of Oporto, tinto, blanco, bottles of Pernod, Oxygènée, absinthe, bottles smashing, bottles cast aside, falling with a thud on the ground in parks, under benches, beds, cinema seats, hidden in drawers at Consulates, bottles of Calvados dropped and broken, or bursting into smithereens, tossed into garbage heaps, flung into the sea, the Mediterranean, the Caspian, the Caribbean, bottles floating in the ocean, dead Scotchmen on the Atlantic highlands—and now he saw them, smelt them, all, from the very beginning—bottles, bottles, bottles, and glasses, glasses, glasses, of bitter, of Dubonnet, of Falstaff, Rye, Johnny Walker, Vieux Whiskey blanc Canadien, the apéritifs, the digestifs, the demis, the dobles, the noch ein Herr Obers, the et glas Araks, the tusen taks, the bottles, the bottles, the beautiful bottles of tequila, and the gourds, gourds, gourds, the millions of gourds of beautiful mescal...”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. X (p. 292)

“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano

“the fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light”

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Malcolm Lowry

Источник: October Ferry To Gabriola

“What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. II (p. 49)

“There was something in the wild strength of this landscape, once a battlefield, that seemed to be shouting at him, a presence born of that strength whose cry his whole being recognized as familiar, caught and threw back into the wind, some youthful passage of courage and pride — the passionate, yet so nearly always hypocritical, affirmation of one’s soul perhaps, he thought, of the desire to be, to do, good, what was right.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. IV (p. 124)

“And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. I (p. 36)

“Christ," he remarked, puzzled, "this is a dingy way to die.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 373)

“What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. X (p. 287)

“I want your life filling and stirring me. I want your happiness beneath my heart and your sorrows in my eyes and your peace in the fingers of my hand.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 346)

“There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e’s, the flying buttresses of d’s, the t’s like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. I (p. 35)

“I wake to a darkness in which I must follow myself endlessly, hating the I who so eternally pursues and confronts me. If we could rise from our misery, seek each other once more, and find again the solace of each other’s lips and eyes.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 346)

“How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.”

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Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 351)

“And yet, in these old women it was as if, through the various tragedies of Mexican history, pity, the impulse to approach, and terror, the impulse to escape (as one had learned at college), having replaced it, had finally been reconciled by prudence, the conviction it is better to stay where you are.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. VIII (pp. 248-249)

“"What for you lie?" the Chief of Rostrums repeated in a glowering voice. "You say your name is Black. No es Black." He shoved him backwards toward the door. "You say you are a wrider." He shoved him again. "You no are a wrider." He pushed the Consul more violently, but the Consul stood his ground. "You are no a de wrider, you are de espider, and we shoota de espiders in Méjico."”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 371)

“How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. III (p. 79)

“God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 346)

“For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.”

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Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. III (p. 75)

“But my lord, Yvonne, surely you know by this time I can’t get drunk however much I drink.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. III (p. 85)

“Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. III (p. 86)

“You can´t live without loving.”

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No se puede vivir sin amar.
Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. I (p. 6)

“The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.”

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Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. I (p. 35)

“And how could he know whether it was a good omen or not without another drink?”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. VII (*p. 201)

“Yes, I do love you, I have all the love in the world left for you, only that love seems so far away from me and so strange too, for it is as though I could almost hear it, a droning or weeping, but far, far away, and a sad lost sound, it might be either approaching or receding, I can’t tell which.”

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Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. VII (*p. 200)

“In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. VI (*p. 157)

“In the final analysis there was no one you could trust to drink with you to the bottom of the bowl.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. V (*p. 147)

“The will of man is unconquerable. Even God cannot conquer it.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. III (*p. 97)

“Though tragedy was in the process of becoming unreal and meaningless it seemed one was still permitted to remember the days when an individual life held some value and was not a mere misprint in a communiqué.”

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Malcolm Lowry книга Under the Volcano

Источник: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. I (*p. 11)

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