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141 " The corridor was still empty of all the feet in sad generations seeking water. yet the eyes unseeing clenched like teeth not disbelieving doubting even the absence of pain shin ankle knee the long invisible flowing of the stair-railing where a misstep in the darkness filled with sleeping Mother Father Caddy Jason Maury door I am not afraid only Mother Father Caddy Jason Maury geting so far ahead sleeping I will sleep fast when I door Door door It was empty too, the pipes, the porcelain, the stained quiet walls, the throne of contemplation. "
― William Faulkner , The Sound and the Fury
142 " The three quarters began. The first note sounded, measured and tranquil, serenely peremptory, emptying the unhurried silence for the next one and that’s it if people could only change one another forever that way merge like a flame swirling up for an instant then blown cleanly out along the cool eternal dark instead of lying there trying not to think of the swing until all cedars came to have that vivid dead smell of perfume that Benjy hated so. "
143 " Just by imagining the clump it seemed to me that I could hear whispers secret surges smell the beating of hot blood under wild unsecret flesh watching against red eyelids the swine untethered in pairs rushing coupled into the sea and he we must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while its not always and i it doesnt have to be even that long for a man of courage and he do you consider that courage and i yes sir dont you and he every man is the arbiter of his own virtues whether or not you consider it courageous is of more importance than the act itself than any act otherwise you could not be in earnest and i you dont believe i am serious and he i think you are too serious to give me any cause for alarm you wouldnt have felt driven to the expedient of telling me you had committed incest otherwise and i i wasnt lying i wasnt lying and he you wanted to sublimate a piece of natural human folly into a horror and then exorcise it with truth "
144 " Pencerenin gölgesi perdelerin üstüne vurduğu zaman yedi ile sekiz arası idi, sonra zaman içinde yeniden buldum kendimi, saati işitince. Büyükbabamındı ve babam bana verdiği zaman, Quentin, sana bütün umutların ve özlemlerin mezarını veriyorum demişti; o daha çok insan yaşantılarının saçmalığına varman için acıta acıta kullanılmaya elverişlidir, böylece senin kişisel ihtiyaçlarını babanın ve onun da babasının ihtiyaçlarını karşıladığından çok karşılayamayacaktır. Bu saati sana zamanı hatırlayasın diye değil, ara sıra onu bir an unutasın ve soluğunun hepsini onu elde etmek için harcamayasın diye veriyorum. Çünkü şimdiye kadar hiçbir savaş kazanılmamıştır demişti. Dahası savaşılmamıştır bile. Savaş alanı insanın delilikleri ile umutsuzluklarını ortaya çıkarır ve zafer felsefecilerle budalaların hayalidir. "
145 " Some looked at him as they passed, at the man sitting quietly behind the wheel of a small car, with his invisible life ravelled out about him like a wornout sock. "
146 " There now. Just look at what your grandpa did to that poor old nigger.” “Yes,” I said. “Now he can spend day after day marching in parades. If it hadn’t been for my grandfather, he’d have to work like whitefolks. "
147 " Eating the business of eating inside of you space too space and time confused Stomach saying noon brain saying eat oclock "
148 " بهترین راه روبه رو شدن با مردم سیاه یا سفید این است که آدم همانطور قبولشان کند که می کنند هستند "
149 " Show me the man what aint going to die, bless Jesus. "
150 " They came on. I opened the gate and they stopped. turning. I was trying to say, and I caught her, trying to say, and she screamed and I was trying to say and trying and the bright shapes were going again. They were going up the hill to where it fell away and tried to cry. But when I breathed in, I couldn't breathe out again to cry, and I tried to keep from falling off the hill and I fell off the hill into the bright, whirling shapes. "
151 " When he touched me I died. "
152 " When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight oclock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excrutiating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his and his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. "
153 " And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. "
154 " Caddy smelled like trees in the rain. "
155 " I've seed de first en de last," Dilsey said. "I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin. "
156 " ¿Para qué le han cambiado de nombre si no es para que cambie su suerte? "
157 " Hush now," she said. "I'm not going to run away." So I hushed. Caddy smelled like trees in the rain. "
158 " La pureza es un estado negativo y por tanto contrario a la naturaleza. "
159 " Veía las fuerzas opuestas de su destino y de su voluntad confluir ahora velozmente, hacia una conjunción que sería irrevocable; pensó con cautela. "
160 " You’ve been running a long time, not to’ve got any further off than mealtime, "