Ilych had lived only in memories of the past. Pictures of his past rose before him one after another. They always began with what was nearest in time and then went back to what was most remote - to his childhood - and rested there. If he thought of the stewed prunes that had been offered him that day, his mind went back to the raw...

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Page 137 - Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal', had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius — man in the abstract— was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others. Appears in 89 books from 1935-2008

Page 301 - An den Ufern der Havel lebte, um die Mitte des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts, ein Roßhändler, namens Michael Kohlhaas, Sohn eines Schulmeisters, einer der rechtschaffensten zugleich und entsetzlichsten Menschen seiner Zeit. Appears in 150 books from 1826-2007

Page 160 - Je dis qu'il faut etre voyant, se faire voyant. \ Le Poete se fait voyant par un long, immense et raisonne dereglement de tous les sens. Appears in 142 books from 1907-2007

Page 137 - ... the smell of that striped leather ball Vanya had been so fond of? Had Caius kissed his mother's hand like that, and did the silk of her dress rustle so for Caius? Had he rioted like' that at school when the pastry was bad? Appears in 91 books from 1935-2008

Page 192 - He saw that there was no mood of the mind that had not its counterpart in the sensuous life, and set himself to discover their true relations, wondering what there was in frankincense that made one mystical... Appears in 45 books from 1904-2007

Page 190 - I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticised from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate... Appears in 108 books from 1886-2007

Page 216 - Da stand das Scharfe vom Urin und das Brennen vom Ruß und grauer Kartoffeldunst und der schwere, glatte Gestank von alterndem Schmalze. Der süße, lange Geruch von vernachlässigten Säuglingen war da und der Angstgeruch der Kinder, die in die Schule gehen, und das Schwüle aus den Betten mannbarer Knaben. Appears in 54 books from 1922-2008

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