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Pushkin Press

  • Luca Ferreirahas quoted2 years ago
    nd noted with increasing astonishment how little trustworthy information there was concerning this astounding exploit. As had happened to me several times before, I found that to tell the story to others would be the best way of explaining the inexplicable to myself. Such was the origin of my book, which, I can frankly say, has come into being to my own surprise. For, in recounting this odyssey
  • Eolhk Khas quoted10 months ago
    I breathed freely, purely, and full of sudden delight I felt the air on my lips like a clear drink. It was soft, effervescent air carrying on it the aroma of fruits, the scent of distant islands, and making me feel slightly drunk.
  • Eolhk Khas quoted10 months ago
    Now, for the first time since I had set foot on the ship’s planks, I knew the blessed joy of reverie, and the other more sensual pleasure of abandoning my body, womanlike, to the softness surrounding me.
  • Yuliia Makarenkohas quoted4 months ago
    Frits rolled a cigarette and ran through the luminescent scale of frequencies without finding anything to his liking.
  • Yuliia Makarenkohas quoted4 months ago
    Frits smiled and looked closely at the handsome, bronzed face with its deep-set, dark blue eyes. “Look for the brand when you buy toothpaste,” he thought. “Wandering?” he replied, “I’m not wandering. It’s bound to be a nasty business this evening, don’t you think, Wim?”
  • Yuliia Makarenkohas quoted4 months ago
    felt his eyes grow moist, seized the sheet between his teeth and fell asleep.
  • Yuliia Makarenkohas quoted4 months ago
    “A doctor once told me that they asked one of the loonies in the asylum: What are you going to do when you leave here? He says: Oh, maybe I’ll become an actor, I’ve always had a flair for that. Or else I’ll work for a newspaper, I did that too for a few years. But there’s always a chance that I’ll pick up my old calling; in actual fact, I’m a teapot.”
  • Sara E. Araunahas quoted2 years ago
    I came for,” he said. The best lies stay close to the truth.
  • Sara E. Araunahas quoted2 years ago
    Eaumbre—when his name crossed his scaly lips, you felt as though you had the mud of his pond in your ears.
  • Sara E. Araunahas quoted2 years ago
    Eaumbre—when his name crossed his scaly lips, you felt as though you had the mud of his pond in your ears.
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