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Heavens,how pretty she is!he thought,looking at her almost with terrified eyes.& to think that such wonderful girls actually exist!This white skin,these eyes which are as dark as deep pools & yet there is something gleaming in them- her soul,no doubt!Her smile can be read like a book,disclosing her beautiful teeth &-& her whole head-how tenderly it rests on her shoulders,swaying,like a flower,breathing with fragrance
— Feb 02, 2020 09:33AM
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at last he decided that his life had not just turned out to be so simple and uncomplicated, but had been created and meant to be so in order to show that the ideally reposeful aspect of human existence was possible. It fell to the lot of other people, he reflected, to express its troubled aspects and set in motion the creative and destructive forces: everyone has his own fixed purpose in life!
— Feb 09, 2020 03:01AM
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My happiness is brimming over, I so want to live and-suddenly all is gall and wormwood...
Ah, that’s what one has to pay for the Promethean fire! It isn’t enough to suffer, you have to love this melancholy and respect your doubts and questionings: they represent the surfeit, the luxury of life, and mostly appear on the summits of happiness, when there are no coarse desires;
— Feb 09, 2020 02:46AM
Ah, that’s what one has to pay for the Promethean fire! It isn’t enough to suffer, you have to love this melancholy and respect your doubts and questionings: they represent the surfeit, the luxury of life, and mostly appear on the summits of happiness, when there are no coarse desires;
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‘Forward, forward!’ Olga had said. ‘Higher, higher, to that boundary where the power of grace and tenderness loses its rights and where man’s kingdom begins!’
How clearly she saw life! How easily she had found her way in that intricate book and had guessed instinctively his way in it too! Their two lives, like two rivers, must merge: he was to be her guide, her leader!
— Feb 08, 2020 08:28AM
How clearly she saw life! How easily she had found her way in that intricate book and had guessed instinctively his way in it too! Their two lives, like two rivers, must merge: he was to be her guide, her leader!
MihaElla
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You are young and you don’t know all the dangers, Olga. Sometimes a man loses his mastery over himself. He is possessed by some evil power, his heart is plunged into darkness, his eyes flash lightnings. He is no longer capable of thinking clearly: respect for purity and innocence is carried away by a whirlwind; he does not know what he is doing; ...
— Feb 06, 2020 07:46AM
MihaElla
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Oblomov could not understand where she got her strength from nor how she could possibly know what to do and how to do it whatever circumstance might arise. ‘It’s because one of her eyebrows is never straight, but is raised a little, and there is a very thin and hardly perceptible line over it’, he thought. ‘It’s there-in that crease- that her stubbornness lies concealed’.
— Feb 05, 2020 08:32AM
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What am I to live for? he said, walking after her. Who for? What am I to seek? What am I to turn to? What am I to strive for? The flowers of life have fallen and only the thorns remain.
They walked along slowly; she listened absent-mindedly &, in passing, tore off a sprig of lilac & gave it to him without looking.
What’s this? he asked, taken aback.
You see, it’s a twig.
What kind of a twig?
Lilac.
— Feb 03, 2020 02:30PM
They walked along slowly; she listened absent-mindedly &, in passing, tore off a sprig of lilac & gave it to him without looking.
What’s this? he asked, taken aback.
You see, it’s a twig.
What kind of a twig?
Lilac.
MihaElla
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No, he cried aloud, getting up from the sofa and pacing the room. This cannot be! To love a ridiculous fellow like me, with sleepy eyes and flabby cheeks…She is just laughing at me…
He stopped before the looking-glass and examined himself for a long time, first disapprovingly, then his eyes suddenly cleared; he even smiled.
— Feb 03, 2020 05:36AM
He stopped before the looking-glass and examined himself for a long time, first disapprovingly, then his eyes suddenly cleared; he even smiled.
MihaElla
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Oblomov laid down on his side & spent an hour thinking of-Olga.At first he tried hard to recall what she looked like, drawing her portrait from memory. Strictly speaking,Olga was no beauty-that is, her cheeks were not of a vivid color,& her eyes did not burn with an inward fire;her lips were not corals nor her teeth pearls, nor were her hands as tiny as those of a child of five nor her fingernails shaped like grapes.
— Feb 02, 2020 08:20AM
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What is this ideal, this norm of life?
Oblomov made no answer.
Now, tell me, Stolz went on, what sort of life would you have planned for yourself?
I have already planned it.
Oh? Tell me, what is it?
What is it? said Oblomov, turning over on his back and staring at the ceiling. Well, I’d go to the country.
Why don’t you?
My plan isn’t ready. Besides, I wouldn’t have gone by myself, but with my wife.
— Feb 02, 2020 02:34AM
Oblomov made no answer.
Now, tell me, Stolz went on, what sort of life would you have planned for yourself?
I have already planned it.
Oh? Tell me, what is it?
What is it? said Oblomov, turning over on his back and staring at the ceiling. Well, I’d go to the country.
Why don’t you?
My plan isn’t ready. Besides, I wouldn’t have gone by myself, but with my wife.
MihaElla
is on page 129 of 496
To pay 200, 300, or 500 roubles all at once for something,however necessary it might be,seemed almost suicidal to them. Hearing that a young local landowner had been to Moscow and bought a dozen shirts for 300 roubles,a pair of boots for 25 roubles,& a waistcoat for his wedding for 40 roubles, Oblomov’s father crossed himself and said, with a look of horror on his face, that ‘such a scamp must be locked up’.
— Feb 01, 2020 08:20AM
