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1 " - ძვირფასო მეთიუ, - უთხრა იზაბელმა, - თუ საუბრისას ორი ადამიანი ერთმანეთს მუდამ ეთანხმება, მაშინ ერთ-ერთი ზედმეტია. "
― Gilbert Adair , The Dreamers
2 " Could that be why brother and sister slept together in perfect impunity, a Romeo and Juliet starcrossed not because they belonged to two families but to a single one? "
3 " My little Matthew, Isabelle at once snapped back at him, when two people agree, it means one of them is redundant "
4 " There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. So is it with self-love. The member that once seemed one of the wonders of the world soon becomes as homely as an old slipper. Mathew and himself gradually ceased to excite each other. "
5 " You read Salinger in Italian? Molto chic’‘I was told a good way to learn a language was to read translations of books you know by heart’‘That’s interesting.’But Isabelle wasn’t at all interested. She had just discovered a new expression. She savoured it amorously. From now on everything that once has been "sublime" – a film, a Worth gown, a Coromandel screen – would be "molto chic". Like those devotees of the increase-your-word-power column in the Reader’s Digest who stake their conversational reputation on the number of times in a single day they find room for "plethora" and "infelicity" and "quintessential", dropping these words the way other people drop names, she hated to let any amusing phrase go once it had caught her fancy. "