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161 " A tientas, confusos, se tocaron, se enredaron en un abrazo torpe y tenso y durante largo rato permanecieron sentados juntos sin moverse, como si cualquier movimiento pudiese dejar escapar de ellos la cosa extraña y terrible que agarraban con las manos. "
― John Williams , Stoner
162 " Their lives had been expended in cheerless labor, their wills broken, their intelligences numbed. "
163 " Edith smiled at him with a curious mixture of fondness and contempt. "
164 " he saw the thin wrists that protruded inches out of his coat sleeves; and he wondered if he appeared as ludicrous to others as he did to himself. "
165 " It’s love, Mr. Stoner,” Sloane said cheerfully. “You are in love. It’s as simple as that. "
166 " He saw the sickness of the world and of his own country, during the years after the great war; he saw hatred and suspicion become a kind of madness that swept across the land like a swift plague; he saw young men go again to war marching eagerly to a senseless doom, as if in the echo of a nightmare. STONER "
167 " She had got the habit of silence; and though she reserved a shy, soft smile for her father, she would not talk to him. "
168 " Anger was days of courteous silence, and love was a word of courteous endearment. She was an only child, and loneliness was one of the earliest conditions of her life. "
169 " [...] rileggere un libro amato è come tornare in un luogo sacro in cui nulla è cambiato, esperienza per noi ovviamente impossibile perchè il mondo cambia sempre. Se un libro cambia è soltanto perchè siamo cambiati noi e lo affrontiamo in modo diverso, ma è sempre una soddisfazione meravigliosa incontrare di nuovo l'universo di un romanzo come questo e avere la certezza che esistono delle cose belle indifferenti alla brutale e inevitabile azione del tempo. Ecco uno dei regali che dobbiamo all'arte: la sensazione che non tutto è perso, che alcune cose restano perfette e inviolabili.[Postfazione di Peter Cameron] "
170 " Edith’s was a campaign waged with such cleverness and skill that he could find no rational grounds for complaint. "
171 " Edith’s strategy became more indirect, more quiet and contained. "
172 " It was a strategy that disguised itself as love and concern, and thus one against which he was helpless. "
173 " He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The "
174 " Se un libro cambia è soltanto perché siamo cambiati noi e lo affrontiamo in modo diverso. "
175 " I’ve never wanted to admit it to myself,” he said with something like tranquillity, “but you really do hate me, don’t you, Edith? "
176 " È per noi che esiste l'università, per i diseredati del mondo. Non per gli studenti, non per la disinteressata ricerca della conoscenza, né per le altre ragioni che sentite dire. Quelle sono solo una copertura, come quei pochi individui normali, idonei al mondo, che di tanto in tanto accogliamo tra noi. Ma è tutto fumo negli occhi. "
177 " coming home early only when his loneliness for a brief glimpse of his daughter, or a word with her, made it impossible for him to stay away. "
178 " We really haven’t known each other very well these last few years, have we?” She looked away and said uncomfortably, “Well—I suppose not. "
179 " La voce era secca e monocorde e gli usciva dalle labbra quasi immobili, senza espressione o intonazione, mentre le sue lunghe dita sottili si muovevano con grazia e decisione, come per restituire alle parole quella forma che la voce non riusciva a dargli. "
180 " He felt the urgency of study. Sometimes, immersed in his books, where would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read… he realized how little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know. "