Book: Black Obelisk. Page 4

Are all left some part of me? All mirrors I look? And as I saw them! Do not count! And am I they all scattered? And every something took from me? Thin print? Thin slice of me? Do the mirror cut me like a piece of wood? What would I have left? Where is my face? My original face? That was me before all the mirrors? Before they started to steal from me?

Not romantic? - Georg contemptuous grins. - What does this mean? There are many varieties of romance.
...
Of riesenfeld, of course, understands the romance of adventure with a lady of high society. Not an affair with the butcher's wife.
George shakes his head.
- What's the difference? The upper light behaves in our day vulgarae than any butcher.

Is boring, she says. - Why do you want to always be the same?
- Yes, why? - I say in surprise. You're right: why a man so committed to this? We certainly want to keep to yourself? And why we are currently in such high esteem?

- Flip the tube as loud as I can, Edward, - ordered Willie.
Is not aristocratic.
- Champagne not for the sake of gentility; his drink to give himself importance.

I am an idealist. So want to have a thousand dollars. But idealism to me wanting nothing. I have more than enough. What I missing is the money.

When a person is desperate, it is easier to go towards the adventure.

At midnight, the universe smells like stars.

- ... In one of the notorious phrase "everything will change" concluded the universal weapon of all demagogues of the globe.
- All will be different!

... Those who consider themselves fair, especially ruthless.

... The tears are full of memories.

Why do You talk about life instead of experience it?

The God of the Bible, the most vindictive of all the gods.

- Are you afraid of me? - whispers to Isabella.
No, I say to myself and shake my head; you're the only person I'm not. And words you are not afraid. For you, they can never be too fat or funny. You always understand them, for they still live in a world where words and feelings, lies and vision are one.

- Do not neglect the great wisdom of the Church! This is the only dictatorship that prevailed for two millennia.