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81 " A look I shall never forget, because it was almost one of hatred, and hatred in her face was like spite in the Virgen Mary's; it reversed the entire order of nature. "
― John Fowles , The Magus
82 " If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse. "
83 " Your first reaction is the characteristic one of your contrasuggestible century: to disbelieve, to disprove. I see this very clearly underneath your politeness. "
84 " الشئ الوحيد الذي لا ينبغي أن يحدث بين رجل و امرأة قدما الحب لبعضهما هو الكذب "
85 " It was not the mask I was afraid of...but of what lay behind the mask. The eternal source of all fear, all horror, all real evil, man himself "
86 " I could offer no consolation and I do not think he wanted any. There are situations in which consolation only threatens the equilibrium that time has instituted. "
87 " Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn. "
88 " Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. It "
89 " There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. "
90 " there are times when silence is a poem. "
91 " It was curious how quiet that last evening was; as if I had already left, and we were just two ghosts talking to each other. "
92 " Lizards flashed up the pine-trunks like living emerald necklaces. "
93 " Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see death ahead, but eternally behind: in any moment that stops and thinks. "
94 " if Greece were a woman so sensually provocative that I must fall physically and desperately in love with her, and at the same time so calmly aristocratic that I should never be able to approach her. "
95 " Pero ya entonces me parecía muy lejana, aunque no en la distancia ni en el tiempo, sino en alguna dimensión para la que no tenemos nombre. En la realidad, quizás. "
96 " I felt like a germ that had landed, like the first penicillin microbe, not only in a culture where it was totally at home, totally nourished; but in a situation in which it was infinitely significant. "
97 " Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling and consuming. His batrachian lips pursed into a smile, and he dug again into the honey. "
98 " Ne considera, pe mine si pe fete, imaturi si naivi, dar noi ne puteam dovedi de zece ori mai perfizi decat el, tocmai pentru ca eram englezi - nascuti pentru a purta masca si educati de mici sa mintim. "
99 " Humour is a manifestation of freedom. It is because there is freedom that there is smile. "
100 " His name was Captain Montague. He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then. A kind of phosphorescent pale elegance about his face. A delicate, gallant moustache. He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal. "