Ex Nihilo Dutluk
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Mütercim-Tercüman
Yüksek Lisans
Mersin
İstanbul, 23 Ekim 1994
1284 okur puanıHaziran 2017 tarihinde katıldı
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2026 6. kitabı
What frightened me—and I was frightened, I admit (...)—was what I can only call the expression beneath the lack of expression on his face. It was there like the black water we sometimes glimpse moving beneath the ice when the river freezes. Baldanders had found a terrible joy now in being as he was; and when I faced him I realized for the first time that he was not so much feigning madness on the stage as feigning sanity and his dim humility off it.
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Beğendi
·2026 5. kitabı
For an instant I saw a flash of anger in her face. Then it was spread over with an unction of philosophical irony, the secretion of her injured self-esteem. I was far stronger than she, and poor though I was, richer; she told herself now (I felt I could almost hear her voice whispering in her own ear) that by accepting such insults she mastered me.
An old servant brought us tea and small, hard cakes. Not real tea, but the mate of the north, which we sometimes give our clients because it is so cheap. Valeria smiled.
“You see, you have found some comfort here. You are worried about your poor dog because he is lame. But he, too, may have found hospitality. You love him, so another may love him. You love him, so you may love another.”
I agreed, but secretly thought that I would never have another dog, which has proved true.