- ... and at honours that are great and conferred by good men he will be moderately pleased, thinking that he is combing by his own or even less than his own... yet he will at any rate accept it since they have nothing greater to bestow on him; but honour from casual people and on trifling grounds he will despise ( Read more... )

Профессор из Швеции с обыкновенной скандинавской фамилией Сведеборг.


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 Att spara mest, kan du helt enkelt låta håret falla ned utefter ryggen. Om du vill ha kortklippt, kan du också spara pengar på följande sätt. Ta en större kastrull, stjälp den över huvudet rakt ner till ögonen och be någon att klippa håret runt kastrullen. Det är inte bara billigast, det är också den modernaste frisyr à la gamla vikingar.

 Братья Стругацкие, "Волны гасят ветер"

Визит Колдуна с планеты Саракш в харьковский Институт Чудаков.

ГАЙДАЙ. ...Голос у него, надо сказать, довольно противный, как у сварливой ведьмы.
Я. Кстати, на каком языке вы с ним говорили?
ГАЙДАЙ. Представьте себе, на украинском!

- Bruckner, Symphony No. 5 (Paternostro; Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen)
- Mahler, Symphony No. 4 (Sir Colin Davis; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks)
- Liszt, Sacred Music Transcriptions (Philip Thomson) - Vol. 9 (Naxos)
- Dickens, "Hard Times"
- Petar Žegarac, "Att Bli Äkta Svensk"
- Georges Perec, "La vie : mode d'emploi"
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- Smollett, "Peregrine Pickle"
- Sterne, "A Sentimenal Journey through France and Italy"
- Sterne, "Tristram Shandy"
- Достоевский, "Бесы"
- Достоевский, "Братья Карамазовы"
- Perec, "La vie : mode d'emploi"
- Nabokov, "Pale Fire"
- Nabokov, "Ada"
- Набоков, "Дар"
- Proust, "Du côté de chez Swann"
- Чернышевский, "Что делать?"
- Maugham, "Of Human Bondage"
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- Science (No. 5972 from 19 March 2010), "An Evolving View of Saturn's Dynamic Rings"
- Zola, "Au Bonheur des Dames"
- Бунин, "Генрих" (из цикла "Темные аллеи")
- Per Olof Sundman, "Undersökningen"
- Svendsen, Symphony No. 1 (Jansons; Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra) - EMI
- Rakhmaninov, Piano Concerto No. 1 (Ashkenazy, Haitink; Concertgebouw Orchestra) - ( Read more... )

Zola, "Au Bonheur des Dames"

Chapitre XI, la conversation entre Vallagnosc et Mouret:

Mouret: "Crever pour crever, je préfère crever de passion que de crever d'ennui!"
Vallagnosc: "... et si l'on ne se tuait pas, c'était par simple paresse, pour éviter de se déranger... Pourquoi vouloir ou ne pas vouloir, puisque jamais ça ne tournait comme on le ( Read more... )

Bertrand Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy"
Chapter XV: "The Theory of Ideas"

"William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision ( Read more... )

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