robot 29 июня 2012 г., 15:27 Пожаловаться Men chase the same women again and again; or rather the same illusion; or rather the same lost part of themselves. The Wine-Dark Sea Robert Aickman 4,5
robot 5 ноября 2011 г., 18:01 Пожаловаться There are no beautiful clocks. Everything to do with time is hideous. Cold Hand in Mine (сборник) Robert Aickman 3,4
robot 29 июня 2012 г., 15:25 Пожаловаться It is amazing how full a life a man can lead without for one moment being alive at all. The Wine-Dark Sea Robert Aickman 4,5
robot 26 апреля 2012 г., 14:30 Пожаловаться It is the unread book which brings in the royalty (after all, modern translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey are said to sell by the hundred thousand, and the Bible to be more decisively the best seller of all with every year that passes). Sub Rosa Robert Aickman 4,3
robot 5 ноября 2011 г., 17:59 Пожаловаться Horrors often come in pairs. Cold Hand in Mine (сборник) Robert Aickman 3,4
robot 29 июня 2012 г., 15:24 Пожаловаться Most people are babies until they confront property ownership. The Wine-Dark Sea Robert Aickman 4,5
robot 29 июня 2012 г., 15:23 Пожаловаться When she was reading, she had learned of the Saxons never taking action unless the matter had been considered by the council, first when sober and then when drunk. It was the approach that was needed now. The Wine-Dark Sea Robert Aickman 4,5
robot 26 апреля 2012 г., 14:35 Пожаловаться At the best of times, to pass by a lot of empty houses is a sad proceeding. It makes you think all the wrong thoughts. Especially when you're young, and not used to such thoughts. And most of all when the empty houses are set in a beautiful spot. That's the worst thing of all. Sub Rosa Robert Aickman 4,3
robot 26 апреля 2012 г., 14:32 Пожаловаться 'What a beautiful room!' - I exclaimed politely. But I was looking over my shoulder to see if the black dog had emerged through the open door on the other side of the landing. 'That is because many people have died in it,' said Madame A. 'The two beautiful things are love and death.' Sub Rosa Robert Aickman 4,3
robot 29 октября 2016 г., 23:17 Пожаловаться "We are most of us two people, your Highness. There is something lacking in the man who is one man only, and so, as he believes, at peace with the world and with himself." "Is there, Spalt?" "And the two people within us seldom communicate. Even when both are present together in consciousness, there is little… Развернуть Cold Hand in Mine (сборник) Robert Aickman 3,4
robot 29 октября 2016 г., 23:07 Пожаловаться "Because, Mrs Hughes, your whole life has been a quest for perfection. You have always been concerned only with perfection, and as in this world there is no perfection, you are sad. Sadness can be a very special — shall I say, concession?" Cold Hand in Mine (сборник) Robert Aickman 3,4
robot 29 июня 2012 г., 15:23 Пожаловаться Women, when frightening, are to children enormously more frightening than any man or men. The Wine-Dark Sea Robert Aickman 4,5
robot 5 ноября 2011 г., 18:00 Пожаловаться There's so much to be said for religion in general. It's just that it's no good for a marriage when one of the parties enters a whole world that the other cannot share. Cold Hand in Mine (сборник) Robert Aickman 3,4
robot 5 ноября 2011 г., 17:58 Пожаловаться More secrets are improperly disclosed from boredom than from any other motive; and more intimacies imparted, with relief resulting, or otherwise. Cold Hand in Mine (сборник) Robert Aickman 3,4
robot 5 ноября 2011 г., 17:57 Пожаловаться That, I fear, is what Miss Gisbourne would call one of my overloaded sentences, but overloaded sentences can be the reflection, I am sure, of overloaded spirits, and even be their only relief and outlet! Cold Hand in Mine (сборник) Robert Aickman 3,4
robot 5 ноября 2011 г., 17:55 Пожаловаться I have dutyfully read through several pages of the book, and there is nothing in the world that I like more than reading, but Dante's ideas are so gloomy and complicated that I suspect he is no writer for a woman, certainly not for an English woman. Also his face frightens me, so critical and severe. After looking at his… Развернуть Cold Hand in Mine (сборник) Robert Aickman 3,4
robot 5 ноября 2011 г., 17:51 Пожаловаться We do not die merely because we want to. Cold Hand in Mine (сборник) Robert Aickman 3,4
robot 5 ноября 2011 г., 17:50 Пожаловаться Unaccustomed cheapness is something that takes much explanation in the world around us. Cold Hand in Mine (сборник) Robert Aickman 3,4
robot 5 ноября 2011 г., 17:49 Пожаловаться Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately. Cold Hand in Mine (сборник) Robert Aickman 3,4
robot 29 октября 2016 г., 23:20 Пожаловаться As we acquire weight in the world, we lose it within ourselves. Maturity is always in part a matter of emptying and contracting. Cold Hand in Mine (сборник) Robert Aickman 3,4