The Last of the Wine
Mary RenaultSözler ve Alıntılar
Without laughter, what man of sense could endure either politics or war?
Sayfa 76 - Vintage Books – September, 1975Kitabı yarım bıraktı
But after the rain has fallen, you cannot put it back in the sky.
Sayfa 75 - Vintage Books – September, 1975Kitabı yarım bıraktı
socrates slayin' even in fiction
"He was maintaining to a number of people that Egyptians are barbarians because they worship beasts and birds as gods. I said we ought to enquire first whether they really did so. He had just led himself up to admitting that to worship a man-shaped image, really believing that the god resembles a man is more impious than to worship divine wisdom in the shape of a hawk. At this point he became angry; you would have supposed he had something to gain by thinking every Egyptian more barbarous than himself."
Sayfa 88 - Vintage Books – September, 1975Kitabı yarım bıraktı
While my eyes had been clouded, and all those hand were about me, I had fancied I know not what, some happiness, drawn by my victory as a moth flies to the torch. But the faces were all the same.
Sayfa 83 - Vintage Books – September, 1975Kitabı yarım bıraktı
dude just invented monotheism
Now dawn unfolded a wing of flame, but Helios was still beneath the sea. All things looked light and incorporeal and the world was still. I thought I would pray before going, but did not know which altar to turn to; for the gods seemed everywhere, all saying the same word to me, as if they had been not twelve but one. I felt I had seen a mystery, yet knew not what. I was happy. Wishing to pray all gods alike, I stood where I was and lifted my hands to the sky.
Sayfa 17 - Vintage Books – September, 1975Kitabı yarım bıraktı