Илья Франк,Ольга Ламонова,Ирина Кемайкина,Яна Ануфриева,William Somerset Maugham

Английский язык с У. С. Моэмом. На окраине империи

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  • 𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪has quoted2 years ago
    We know that it will profit a man little if he gain the whole world and lose his soul. I think I have won mine."
  • 𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪has quoted2 years ago
    I'd always been too busy before. And gradually all the life that had seemed so important to me began to seem rather trivial and vulgar. What is the use of all this hustle and this constant striving?
  • 𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪has quoted2 years ago
    I began to think. I'd never had time to do that before. I began to read."
  • 𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪has quoted2 years ago
    Perhaps even the best of us are sinners
  • 𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪has quoted2 years ago
    I don't know. Perhaps never."
    "What in heaven's name do you mean?" cried Bateman.
    "I'm very happy here. Wouldn't it be folly to make a change?"
  • 𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪has quoted2 years ago
    "Beauty," murmured Arnold Jackson. "You seldom see beauty face to face. Look at it well, Mr. Hunter, for what you see now you will never see again, since the moment is transitory, but it will be an imperishable memory in your heart. You touch eternity."
  • 𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪has quoted2 years ago
    Below them coconut trees tumbled down steeply to the lagoon, and the lagoon in the evening light had the colour, tender and varied of a dove's breast. On a creek, at a little distance, were the clustered huts of a native village, and towards the reef was a canoe, sharply silhouetted, in which were a couple of natives fishing.
  • 𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪has quoted3 years ago
    He spoke with exuberant joviality (он говорил с бурной радостью; exuberant— богатый, изобильный; бурный, неудержимый;joviality— общительность; веселость).
  • 𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪has quoted4 years ago
    I want to make more out of my life than that, Bateman."
    "What do you value in life then?"
    "I'm afraid you'll laugh at me. Beauty, truth, and goodness."
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    I've never seen anything like it
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