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maryxmasну и как я теперь буду работать? ведь пока не прочту -- не успокоюсь!
Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.
On the Continent you find any amount of people who sigh deeply for no conspicuous reason, yearn, suffer and look in the air extremely sadly. This is soul.
The worst kind of soul is the great Slav soul. People who suffer from it are usually very deep thinkers. They may say things like this: "Sometimes I am so merry and sometimes I am so sad. Can you explain why?" (You cannot, do not try.) Or they may say: "I am so mysterious ... I sometimes wish I were somewhere else than where I am." (Do not say: "I wish you were.") Or "When I am alone in the forest at night-time and jump from one tree to another, I often think that life is so strange."
All this is very deep: and just soul, nothing else.
The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.
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Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.
On the Continent you find any amount of people who sigh deeply for no conspicuous reason, yearn, suffer and look in the air extremely sadly. This is soul.
The worst kind of soul is the great Slav soul. People who suffer from it are usually very deep thinkers. They may say things like this: "Sometimes I am so merry and sometimes I am so sad. Can you explain why?" (You cannot, do not try.) Or they may say: "I am so mysterious ... I sometimes wish I were somewhere else than where I am." (Do not say: "I wish you were.") Or "When I am alone in the forest at night-time and jump from one tree to another, I often think that life is so strange."
All this is very deep: and just soul, nothing else.
The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.
читать всё.
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Date: 2005-05-29 10:58 pm (UTC)