Colleen McCullough Quotes

La buena literatura nunca había tenido por objeto ser un ejemplo o eco de la vida real, sino que estaba hecha para abstraer al lector momentáneamente de la vida, liberando su mente de consideraciones para posibilitar su solaz con el glorioso lenguaje de vívidas composiciones de palabras en forma de ideas imaginarias o fantasiosas.

The shock of having to pull herself up in the midst of a spontaneous reaction — I must remember to tell Dane about this, he’ll get such a kick out of it — that was what hurt the most. And because it kept on occurring so often, it prolonged the grief.

Why shouldn't the living cords which lace our being together flick softly against a loved one in the very moment of their unraveling?...Sometimes, all the miles between are as nothing, sometimes, they are narrowed to the little silence between the beats of a heart.

A man who has nothing to lose have everything to gain, and a man without feelings cannot hurt.

Ôi, cuộc sống là một cực hình ghê gớm. Ta chỉ có đủ can đảm đi men bên rìa cuộc sống.

Chính cuộc sống này mới là địa ngục; một bản án nô lệ suốt đời ở trần thế.

Сълзитe я заслепяваха, сърцето й бе свито от непозната до сега болка, защото никога преди не бе притежавала нещо, заради което да тъгува

Quand vous avancerez en âge, vous vous apercevez que la vie est faites de rencontres, de connaissances et de séparations. Parfois, nous aimons les gens que nous rencontrons, parfois, nous ne les aimons pas, mais les connaitre est ce qu'il y a de plus important dans la vie, c'est cela qui fait de nous des être humains.

What can I do when there is no courage in me, Father? Where does courage come from? Why did I not receive my share?

Khi có một người có hai bàn tay như thế thì ai cũng biết ngay đó là một người lương thiện.

loved, and indulged to the full extent of her father

The Julian ancestry was so stellar, so august, that opportunities to fill the family coffers had passed

Oh, there had been divorced Presidents, even, late in the twentieth century, one who had survived a White House divorce to the extent of being re-elected. Of course old Gus Time hadn't made any mistake in the marital department. Sixty years of wedded bliss. The grin came and went. Old fox! They said when he was in his early twenties and so new in Washington he still smacked of the boondocks, he had cast his eyes around all the Washington wives: he picked Senator Black's wife Olive for her beauty, her brains, her organizational genius and her relish of public life, then simply stole her from the Senator. It worked, though she was thirteen years older than he. She was the greatest First Lady the country had ever known. But behind the scenes - Oh man, what a tartar! Not that he had ever heard old Gus complain. The public lion was perfectly content to be a private mouse. Gus do this, Gus don't do that - and he was so lost when she died that he abandoned Washington the moment her funeral was over, went to live in his home state of Iowa and died himself not two months later.

The Julius Caesars are directly descended from the goddess Venus through her grandson Iulus, son of her son Aeneas.

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