Sublime

me: imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation

The prince observed with great surprise, as he approached his villa, accompanied by Rogojin, that a large number of people were assembled on his verandah, which was brilliantly lighted up. The company seemed merry and were noisily laughing and talking—even quarrelling, to judge from the sounds. At all events they were clearly enjoying themselves, a

What seemed to him strangest of all was that his brother Ivan, on whom alone he had rested his hopes, and who alone had such influence on his father that he could have stopped him, sat now quite unmoved, with downcast eyes, apparently waiting with interest to see how it would end, as though he had nothing to do with it.

так и вызначилась во всем пустая природа мужчины, природа грубая, тяжелая, не способная ни к домостроительству, ни к сердечным убеждениям, маловерная, ленивая, исполненная беспрерывных сомнений и вечной боязни.

Le médecin sortit, alla au salon et déclara à Prascovie Fédorovna que son mari allait très mal, et que le seul moyen d’apaiser ses souffrances, qui devaient être atroces, c’était de lui administrer de l’opium. Le docteur avait raison de dire que les souffrances physiques d’Ivan Ilitch étaient intolérables. C’était vrai. Mais ses souffrances morales

его кабинете всегда лежала какая-то книжка, заложенная закладкою на четырнадцатой странице, которую он постоянно читал уже два года.

John Updike’s The Centaur,