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Doris Lessing _ The Summer Before the Dark
Комплексът за вина е почти определение на майчинството в нашата просветена епоха.
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Doris Lessing _ The Summer Before the Dark
I'm not going to be like my mother. You're maniacs. You're mad.""Yes," said Kate. "I know it. And so you won't be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?
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Doris Lessing _ The Summer Before the Dark
All those years were now seeming like a betrayal of what she really was. While her body, her needs, her emotions–all of herself–had been turning like a sunflower after one man, all that time she had been holding in her hands something else, the something precious, offering it in vain to her husband, to her children, to everyone she knew–but it had never been taken, had not been noticed. But this thing she had offered, without knowing she was doing it, which had been ignored by herself and by everyone else, was what was real in her." {page 140}"
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Doris Lessing _ The Summer Before the Dark
For many thousands of years people had looked at expensive heads of hair and thought of how much food and warmth they represented, so obviously it was a thought of no use at all, so why bother to have it? But thoughts of this sort did go ticking on, useless or not.
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Doris Lessing _ The Summer Before the Dark
Mas como era extraordinária aquela sala cheia de gente - ou melhor, de animais -, a olhar na mesma direcção, para outros animais mascarados e treinados para representar num palco, para animais cobertos de tecido e bocados de peles, ornamentados com pedras e de rostos e garras pintados. Toda a gente acabara de comer um animal de qualquer espécie; as peles que se viam por toda a parte, apesar de a noite estar quente, provinham de animas que tinham vivido, brincado e fornicado em florestas e campos, e os pés de toda a gente estavam cobertos de pele de animais.
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Doris Lessing _ The Summer Before the Dark
she had to fight for qualities that had not been even in her vocabulary. Patience. Self-discipline. Self-control. Self-abnegation. Chastity. Adaptability to others - this above all. This always.
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Doris Lessing _ The Summer Before the Dark
So very Russian," people around were murmuring. That they did meant this was an audience pretty low down on the scale of sophistication, otherwise they would be saying, "Just like us, isn't it?
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