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The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.

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كل الوجوه كانت حقيقية لم يكن لي ، على غرار المنافقين وجه حقيقي وأخرى زائفة ،كان لدي عدة وجوه لأني كنت فتياً ولم أكن أنا نفسي ، أعرف من أكون ومن أريد أن أكونه
لايمنع ذلك من أن عدم التناسب الموجود بين كل هذه الوجوه كان يخلق لدي الوجل ،لم أكن أطابق أياً منها تماماً، وكنت أتحرك وراءها ببلادة بشكل أعمى.

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From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so much pleasure as the sleep that followed it. She especially was affected. Whenever she stayed overnight in her rented room (which quickly became only an alibi for Tomas), she was unable to fall asleep; in his arms she would fall asleep no matter how wrought up she might have been. He would whisper impromptu fairy tales about her, or gibberish, words he repeated monotonously, words soothing or comical, which turned into vague visions lulling her through the first dreams of the night. He had complete control over her sleep: she dozed off at the second he chose.

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Once, when he had just lulled her to sleep but she had gone no farther than dream's antechamber and was therefore still responsive to him, he said to her, "Good-bye, I'm going now." "Where?" she asked in her sleep. "Away," he answered sternly. "Then I'm going with you," she said, sitting up in bed. "No, you can't. I'm going away for good," he said, going out into the hall. She stood up and followed him out, squinting. She was naked beneath her short nightdress. Her face was blank, expressionless, but she moved energetically. He walked through the hall of the flat into the hall of the building (the hall shared by all the occupants), closing the door in her face. She flung it open and continue to follow him, convinced in her sleep that he meant to leave her for good and she had to stop him. He walked down the stairs to the first landing and waited for her there. She went down after him, took him by the hand, and led him back to bed.
Tomas came to this conclusion: Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).

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Vê um jovem que se afasta da vida dela e se vai, parra sempre inacessível. Hipnotizada, nada pode fazer senão olhar esse pedaço da sua vida que se afasta, não pode senão olhá-lo e sofrer. Experimenta uma sensação inteiramente nova que se chama nostalgia.

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Quanto mais vasto é o tempo que deixámos para trás de nós, mais irresistivel é a voz que nos convida ao regresso.

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للحياة التي نخلفها وراءنا عادةُ الخروج السيئة من الظلمات، تقديم الشكايات ، وفرض الأحكام علينا .

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كلما كان الزمن الذي نخلفه وراءنا أكبر كلما أصبح الصوت الذي يحثّنا على العودة لا يُقاوم ، يبدو هذا الحكم مبدءاً عاماً، لكنه مزيف.
فالكائن البشري يشيخ والنهاية تقترب، فتصبح كل لحظة ثمينة ولا يعود هناك وقت يُضيّع على الذكريات.
يجب فهم التناقض الرياضي الظاهري للحنين : يظهر هذا بقوة في مرحلة الشباب الأولى، حين يكون حجم الحياة الماضية زهيداً.

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