Ksuffok - Цитатник
«Мы, дядя Ваня, будем жить. Проживем длинный-длинный ряд дней, долгих вечеров; будем терпеливо сносить испытания, какие пошлет нам судьба; будем трудиться для других и теперь, и в старости, не зная покоя, а когда наступит наш час, мы покорно умрем и там за гробом мы скажем, что мы страдали, что мы плакали, что нам было горько, и бог сжалится над нами, и мы с тобою, дядя, милый дядя, увидим жизнь светлую, прекрасную, изящную, мы обрадуемся и на теперешние наши несчастья оглянемся с умилением, с улыбкой -- и отдохнем. Я верую, дядя, я верую горячо, страстно... Мы отдохнем! Мы отдохнем! Мы услышим ангелов, мы увидим все небо в алмазах, мы увидим, как все зло земное, все наши страдания потонут в милосердии, которое наполнит собою весь мир, и наша жизнь станет тихою, нежною, сладкою, как ласка. Я верую, верую...»
«Тут мы имеем дело с вырождением вследствие непосильной борьбы за существование; это вырождение от косности, от невежества, от полнейшего отсутствия самосознания, когда озябший, голодный, больной человек, чтобы спасти остатки жизни, чтобы сберечь своих детей, инстинктивно, бессознательно хватается за все, чем только можно утолить голод, согреться, разрушает все, не думая о завтрашнем дне... Разрушено уже почти все, но взамен не создано еще ничего.»
«...мир погибает не от разбойников, не от пожаров, а от ненависти, вражды, от всех этих мелких дрязг…»
«The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if-he thought with a shudder-as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.»
«Then she was conscious of nothing but the sensations of her body, because her body acquired the sudden power to let her know her most complex values by direct perception. Just as her eyes had the power to translate wave lengths of energy into sight, just as her ears had the power to translate vibrations into sound, so her body now had the power to translate the energy that had moved all the choices of her life, into immediate sensory perception. It was not the pressure of a hand that made her tremble, but the instantaneous sum of its meaning, the knowledge that it was his hand, that it moved as if her flesh were his possession, that its movement was his signature of acceptance under the whole of that achievement which was herself-it was only a sensation of physical pleasure, but it contained her worship of him, of everything that was his person and his life»
«This was Mulligan's concept of wealth, she thought-the wealth of selection, not of accumulation.»
«I will stop the motor of the world. Then he walked out. We never saw him again.»
«Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.»
«I believed that one person owes a duty to another with no payment for it in return. I believed that it was my duty to love a woman who gave me nothing, who betrayed everything I lived for, who demanded her happiness at the price of mine. I believed that love is some static gift which, once granted, need no longer be deserved-just as they believe that wealth is a static possession which can be seized and held without further effort. I believed that love is a gratuity, not a reward to be earned-just as they believe it is their right to demand an unearned wealth.»
