Book: The beautiful and the damned

- Geraldine have two favorite trick - told Anthony other. She puts the hair on the eyes and then blows them to the side, and says "You're sleeping-I-I-til!" whenever he hears anything above his understanding. It leads me in delight. Watch her for hours, lost in conjecture, what other manic symptoms show up with it in my imagination.
Maury stirred in his chair and spoke:
- It is surprising that such a man can live in our complex civilization, having almost no idea of it. Such a woman perceives the universe with indifference, as something completely ordinary. She was a stranger to all, from the influence of the ideas of Rousseau on humanity before the formation of the prices for a private dinner. She pulled out of century lancers and moved to the us where you can, armed with a bow, to take part in a duel with pistols. You can drop a historical layer, and she will not feel any difference.

You know, after all, and a loser, and the minion of fortune, both in the soul believe that each of them has the right Outlook on life... just lucky teaches his son to profit from the capital of the father, and those who are not very good at it, teach their sons to learn from his father's mistakes.

But that will not be... never. Wherever we come, whatever changed, every time something is lost, something remains behind. You cannot repeat anything...

He once thought that the representatives of all social strata are clearly marked... divided mankind into two classes: friends and foes. For the priest people are divided into clergy and laity, to the Catholic there are primarily Catholic and non-Catholic. For Negra, the world is divided into black and white, for a prisoner - not those who sit in prison, and those who are walking in the wild, and for the patient all the people either sick, or healthy... So does not attach the slightest effort, he was already a civilian, a layman, a non-Catholic, a Gentile, white, free, and healthy...

Kiss, it is kiss, for it exists to get the maximum pleasure in the shortest possible time.

... The best thing to see things on the bright side.

I don't want to rehash this. Been and gone, but before leaving, took something with them.

... None of them listened to the other everyone was busy polishing and fit your own positions.

- Art is not pointless.
- It is meaningless by its very nature, but acquires meaning when trying to do less meaningless life.

... Her beauty relaxing operated on his brain.

Wait, Gloria, - he shouted, - let me explain!
- There's nothing to explain. Give me a kiss.
- I don't think this is the best option. If I said something to hurt you, we should discuss it! I don't like these "kiss-and-forget".
But I don't want to argue with you. After all, it's wonderful that we can kiss each other and forget, and when we can't - it's time to argue.

There was nothing more perishable than a pleasure.

And I think that life can extract a single lesson.
- Well, what is a lesson?
- What of life it is impossible to extract any lesson.

... Desire is always just mocks you. It is like a sunbeam, sliding through the room. Suddenly stop gilding the damn thing - and here we poor fools try to grasp it, and when you do, Sunny Bunny is already sitting on something else, and you suddenly understand that you got some things a trifle, and all the glitter that makes it such a desirable, long gone...