Book: Germantow

Our intimacy with the woman with whom we are in love, even though from the very beginning we did not consider her especially close, creates between her and us, despite the incompleteness from which we then suffered, a community, and this community survives our love and even remembrance. about our love.

First, we imagine the environment in which we are to enjoy, and only then a woman, a category of women who fit into this environment.

She lived under the same roof with me and my parents for so long that in the end, fear, caution, observation and cunning developed in her an instinctive and almost prescient knowledge about us, such as a sailor has about the sea, a hunter has about game, and about the disease - if not with a doctor, then at least with many patients.

I cannot help but express regret that I was stupid in my time and, simply speaking, did not acquire a collection of women, as one acquires a collection of antique spyglasses, among which, with all the richness of the collection, there is always a place for one more, more rare.

Live longer with a woman - and you will no longer see in her that for which you fell in love with her, however, jealousy can again unite what has fallen apart.

Of course, it is wiser to sacrifice one's life for women than for postage stamps, old snuff boxes, even than for paintings and statues. But only on the examples of other collections should we understand that it is good to have not one, but many women.

Tired, resigned, doomed for several more hours to fulfill his primordial lesson, the gray day was spinning mother-of-pearl braid, and I was sad to think that we would be alone with him.

They say that silence is strength; if it can apply those we love, it is a terrible force. Her growing alarm is pending. Nothing is drawn to the man like that between us, there's at least surmountable obstacle than silence? Also saying that silence is torture and that it is able to bring to the madness of those who are condemned to silence in prison. But what a torture more cruel than to keep quiet himself, to suffer the silence of a loved one!

For the most part the pain is kind of the body's need to realize a new condition that is bothering him, allow the sensitivity in accordance with this condition.

An intelligent man is not afraid to seem a fool other wise man - and so a secular person is afraid that his secularism does not get recognition from Yahoo, not from nobles. Since then, as the world, three-quarters of the mental forces, three-quarters of lies, for which people lined the vanity and on which they just lost, they were dissipated before the people below them.

Secular people are so used to them looking for Dating that whoever avoids them, seems to them a novelty and seizes their attention.

We enjoy beautiful music, beautiful paintings, everything that is in the world elegant, but we don't know what the creators were paid for this insomnia, crying, hysterical laughter, nervous fever, asthma, epilepsy, deadly longing.