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'Ought we to be drunk every night?' Sebastian asked one morning.
'Yes, I think so.'
'I think so too.'

'Sometimes' said Julia, 'I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.'

266. oldal

AUTHOR'S NOTE
I am not I: thou art not he or she
they are not they
E.W.

A kiadási adatok között "elrejtve"

In the weeks that we were together Hooper became a symbol me of Young England, so that whenever I read some public utterance proclaiming what Youth demanded in the Future and what the world owed to Youth, I would test these general statements by substituting 'Hooper' and seeing if they still seemed as plausible. Thus in the dark hour before reveille I sometimes pondered: 'Hooper Rallies', 'Hooper Hostels', 'International Hooper Cooperation', and 'the Religion of Hooper'. He was the acid test of all these alloys

15. oldal

I have plainly bored you into a condition of coma.

57. oldal

His constant, despairing prayer was to be let alone. By the blue waters and rustling palms of his own mind he was happy and harmless as a Polynesian; only when the big ship dropped anchor beyond the coral reef, and the cutter beached in the lagoon, and, up the slope that had never known the print of a boot, there trod the grim invasion of trader, administrator, missionary, and tourist – only then was it time to disinter the archaic weapons of the tribe and -sound the drums in the hills; or, more easily, to turn from the sunlit door and lie alone in the darkness, where the impotent, painted deities paraded the walls in vain and cough his heart out among the rum bottles.

123. oldal

… it was four o'clock, but neither of us was ready to sleep, for in that city there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

219. oldal

'I feel terrible. I didn't know a ship of this size could pitch like this', she said, and her eyes were full of consternation and resentment, like those of a woman who, at the end of her time, at length realizes that however luxurious the nursing home, and however well paid the doctor, her labour is inevitable; and the lift and fall of the ship came regularly as the pains of childbirth.

237. oldal

'You'll fall in love' I said.
'Oh, pray not. I say, do you think I could have another of those scrumptious meringues?'

Book Two, Part Three, p. 288.