Sublime

Smiley also knew, or thought he knew—the idea came to him now as a mild enlightenment—that Bill in turn was also very little by himself: that while his admirers (Bland, Prideaux, Alleline, Esterhase, and all the rest of the supporters’ club) might find in him completeness, Bill’s real trick was to use them, to live through them to complete himself,

is, don’t you? If Tarrance keeps pushing, that idiot Lazarov will call me one day

Cet homme qui pourrait être leur père et même, pour les plus jeunes, leur grand-père, a mené la vie d’aventurier dont tout le monde rêve à vingt ans, c’est une légende vivante, et le cœur de cette légende, ce qui leur donne à tous l’envie de l’imiter, c’est l’héroïsme cool dont il a fait preuve durant son incarcération. Il a été à Lefortovo, la for

Although his own employment in the State Security force was frequently unpleasant he understood its necessity, the necessity of guarding their revolution from enemies both foreign and domestic, from those who sought to undermine it and those determined to see it fail. To this end Leo would lay down his life. To this end he’d lay down the lives of o

But seven people were nothing: they were worse than nothing, because they were evidence of the inertia of the uncapturable mass.

Leo took his time walking up the stairs, contemplating how he had ended up here–policing people’s reactions. He’d never intended to join the State Security Department; the career had grown out of his military service.