Цитаты из книги Конец романа

It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

I could no longer patronize him; he was one of misery's graduates: he had passed in the same school, and for the first time I thought of him as an equal.

Я измерял любовь ревностью, и получалось, что она совсем меня не любит.

...я всегда думал, что роман можно кончать где угодно, но теперь мне кажется, что я никаким реалистом не был, ведь в жизни ничто не кончается.

Если смерть уничтожит нас, велика ли разница, оставили ли мы несколько книг или флакончики, платья, безделушки?

Как незнакомо и как бесконечно тоскливо спокойствие невинности!

There was so much pain at the idea of seeing her writing that I nearly held the letter to the gas-fire, but curiosity can be stronger than pain.

Dear God, if only you could come down from your Cross for a while and let me get up there instead. If I could suffer like you, I could heal like you.

Jealousy, or so I have always believed, exists only with desire. The Old Testament writers were fond of using the words 'a jealous God', and perhaps it was their rough and oblique way of expressing belief in the love of God for man.

If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowarly Peter who loved Christ?

Для любовника нет ничего хуже неуверенности -- самый скучный, бесстрастный брак и то кажется лучше. Она искажает слова, отравляет доверие.