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21 " What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh. "
― Lawrence Durrell , Justine (The Alexandria Quartet #1)
22 " He hablado de la inutilidad del arte, pero no he dicho la verdad sobre el consuelo que procura. "
23 " Her efforts to achieve herself had led her always towards, and not away from him. "
24 " إن الأحداث البعيدة تكتسب وقد حولتها وغيرتها الذاكرة لمعاناً مصقولا لأنها ترى في عزلتها، مفصولة عن التفاصيل السابقة واللاحقة عن خيوط الزمن ولفافاته. إن ممثلي الأحداث يعانون أيضاً التحويل والتغير، ويغطسون في بطء، أعمق فأعمق في محيط الذاكرة كالأجساد مثقلة، ويجدون عند كل مستوى في القلب الانساني تقديراً جديداً، وتقييماً جديداً "
25 " Shyness has laws: you can only give yourself, tragically, to those who least understand. "
26 " إنني اعتقد أن الأحداث ما هي إلا تفسير لمشاعرنا، يمكن ان تقودنا واحدة منها إلى الأخرى. الزمن يحملنا إلى الأمام بقوة تلك المشاعر التي تعيش في أعماقنا والتي لا نعي عنها إلا القليل. "
27 " أفكر في أن المدينة كالانسان تجمع ميولها وشهواتها ومخاوفها. إنها تنمو حتى تبلغ النضج وتقدم أنبياءها، ثم تنحدر إلى التبلد أو الشيخوخة أو الوحدة وهي أسوأ من كليهما. والأحياء لا يزلن يجلسن على قارعة الطريق، لا يدرين أن المدينة تموت، يجلسن كالتماثيل المنصوبة يسندن الظلام، وآلآم المستقبل ترقد فوق جفونهن، ترقب في يقظة، الباحثين عن الخلود عبر كل تنبؤات الزمن "
28 " For years one has to put up with the feeling that people do not care, really care, about one; then one day with growing alarm, one realizes that it is God who does not care; and not merely that he does not care, he does not care one way or the other. "
29 " For all drama creates bondage, and the actor is only significant to the degree that he is bound. "
30 " El dolor mismo es el único elemento de la memoria; porque el placer termina en sí mismo "
31 " Cuesta mucho luchar contra el deseo del corazón; todo lo que quiere obtener, lo compra al precio del alma. "
32 " Africa, which they had somehow visualized as an extension of Europe -- an extension of terms, of references to a definitive past -- had already asserted itself as something different: a forbidding darkness where the croaking ravens matched the dry exclamations of spiritless men, and rationed laughter fashioned from breath simply the chattering of baboons. Sometimes they captured someone -- a solitary frightened man out hunting hares -- and were amazed to see that he was human like themselves. "
33 " No one thing can explain everything; though everything can illuminate something. God, I must be still drunk. If God were anything he would be an art. Sculpture or medicine. But the immense extension of knowledge in this our age, the growth of new sciences, makes it almost impossible for us to digest the available flavours and put them to use. "
34 " ...man is only an extension of the spirit of place. "
35 " And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior. "
36 " Pensaba y sufría mucho, pero le faltaba la fuerza necesaria para atreverse, primer requisito del que hace algo. "
37 " In the great quietness of these winter evenings there is one clock: the sea. Its dim momentum in the mind is the fugue upon which this writing is made. Empty cadences of sea-water licking its own wounds, sulking along the mouths of the delta, boiling upon those deserted beaches– empty, forever empty under the gulls: white scribble on the grey, munched by clouds. "
38 " Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time. "
39 " I long to be musical in body and mind. I want style, consort. Not the little mental squirts as if through the ticker-tape of the mind. "
40 " I suppose events are simply a sort of annotation of our feelings--the one might be deduced from the other. Time carries us (boldly imagining that we are discrete ego's modeling our own personal futures)--time carries us forward by the momentum of those feelings inside us of which we ourselves are least conscious. "