VictoryDoubleday, Page, 1921 - 412 pages |
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... perhaps from a sense of infinite littleness and which is yet the only faculty that seems to assimilate man to the immortal gods . It is only when the catastrophe matches the natural obscurity of our fate that even the best ...
... perhaps from a sense of infinite littleness and which is yet the only faculty that seems to assimilate man to the immortal gods . It is only when the catastrophe matches the natural obscurity of our fate that even the best ...
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... perhaps have tracked the ways of that man of immense sincerity for a little while but I had some of my own very pressing business to attend to , which in the end got mixed up with an earthquake and so I had no time to give to Ricardo ...
... perhaps have tracked the ways of that man of immense sincerity for a little while but I had some of my own very pressing business to attend to , which in the end got mixed up with an earthquake and so I had no time to give to Ricardo ...
Page xvii
... perhaps they had only migrated to the other big café , on the other side of the Place de la Comédie . It is very possible . I did not go across to find out . It was my perfect idleness that had invested the girl with a peculiar charm ...
... perhaps they had only migrated to the other big café , on the other side of the Place de la Comédie . It is very possible . I did not go across to find out . It was my perfect idleness that had invested the girl with a peculiar charm ...
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... out suddenly , à propos des bottes , as the French say , and while chalking his cue . And perhaps it was some sort of enchantment . There are more over And Facts be spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly 6 VICTORY.
... out suddenly , à propos des bottes , as the French say , and while chalking his cue . And perhaps it was some sort of enchantment . There are more over And Facts be spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly 6 VICTORY.
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... Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so , they were failures . The enchantment must have been an un- breakable one . The manager - the man who heard the exclamation -- had been so impressed by the tone , fervour , rapture ...
... Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so , they were failures . The enchantment must have been an un- breakable one . The manager - the man who heard the exclamation -- had been so impressed by the tone , fervour , rapture ...
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Page 200 - I am not sure what it was. I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul.
Page xv - This bestial apparition and a certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti only a couple of months afterwards, have fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested in the human animal, to the end of my days. Of the nigger I used to dream for years afterwards.
Page 174 - You still believe in something, then?" he said in a clear voice, which had been growing feeble of late. "You believe in flesh and blood, perhaps? A full and equable contempt would soon do away with that, too. But since you have not attained to it, I advise you to cultivate that form of contempt which is called pity. It is perhaps the least difficult — always remembering that you, too, if you are anything, are as pitiful as the rest, yet never expecting any pity for yourself.
Page 3 - THERE is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property. There is, from that point of view, a deplorable lack of concentration in coal. Now, if a coalmine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket—but it can't!
Page 3 - Victory— that we all live in an "age in which we are camped like bewildered travellers in a garish, unrestful hotel...
Page 167 - Are we likely to be seen on our way?" "No, unless by native craft," said Schomberg. Ricardo nodded, satisfied. Both these white men looked on native life as a mere play of shadows. A play of shadows the dominant race could walk through unaffected and disregarded in the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs.
Page 74 - At last they steadied in contact, but by that time, say some fifteen minutes from the moment when they sat down, the "interval" came to an end. So much for their eyes. As to the conversation, it had been perfectly insignificant, because naturally they had nothing to say to each other. Heyst had been interested by the girl's physiognomy. Its expression was neither simple nor yet very clear. It was not distinguished — that could not be expected — but the features had more fineness than those of...
Page 106 - Latin races; and though his eyes strayed about irresolutely, yet his swollen, angry features awakened in the miserable woman over whom he had been tyrannising for years a fear for his precious carcass, since the poor creature had nothing else but that to hold on to in the world. She knew him well; but she did not know him altogether. The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. And, timid in her corner, she ventured to...
Page 361 - And who knows if it isn't really my duty?" he began again, as if he had not heard her disjointed words at all. "It may be — my duty to you, to myself. For why should I put up with the humiliation of their secret menaces? Do you know what the world would say?
Page 91 - Three years of such companionship at that plastic and impressionable age were bound to leave in the boy a profound mistrust of life. The young man learned to reflect, which is a destructive process, a reckoning of the cost.