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Lawrence Durrell _ Justine
La culpa se apresura siempre hacia su complemento, el castigo, y sólo allí encuentra satisfacción.
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Lawrence Durrell _ Justine
The great prayer wound its way into my sleepy consciousness like a serpent, coil after shining coil of words-the voice of the muezzin sinking from register to register of gravity-until the whole morning seemed dense with its marvelous healing powers, the intimations of a grace undeserved and unexpected, impregnating that shabby room where Melissa lay, breathing lightly as a gull, rocked upon the oceanic splendours of a language she would never know.
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Lawrence Durrell _ Justine
An artist does not have a personal life as we do, he hides it, forcing us to go to his books if we wish to touch the true source of his feelings. Underneath all his preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. {all the staple abstractions which allow the forebrain to chatter} there is, quite simply, a man tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.
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Lawrence Durrell _ Justine
Bir kadınla üç şey yapabilirsin; ya onu seversin ya onun için acı çekersin ya da onu yazarsın."
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Lawrence Durrell _ Justine
Its women shall be the voluptuaries not of pleasure but of pain, doomed to hunt for what they least dare to find.
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Lawrence Durrell _ Justine
Some characters in the world are marked down for self-destruction, and to these no amount of rational argument can appeal.
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Lawrence Durrell _ Justine
Первое, что он сделал, когда рехнулся, - затеял судебный процесс против собственных сыновей, двоих из нас, выдвинув обвинение в сознательной и злонамеренной незаконнорожденности.
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Lawrence Durrell _ Justine
He sits all day on the terrace of the Brokers' Club watching women pass, with the restless eye of someone endlessly shuffling through an old soiled pack of cards.
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Lawrence Durrell _ Justine
It was already dark and the city was drifting like a bed of seaweed towards the lighted cafés of the upper town.
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Lawrence Durrell _ Justine
The lion-dust of desert: prophets' tombs turned to zinc and copper at sunset on the ancient lake."
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Lawrence Durrell _ Justine
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged.
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Lawrence Durrell _ Justine
In marriage they legitimized despair; every kiss is the conquest of a repulsion.
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