Robert Graves

Lawrence and the Arabs

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  • b9000542659has quoted2 years ago
    In Woolley’s bedroom was an ancient wooden chest containing thousands of silver pieces for the payment of the workmen.
  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted9 years ago
    for no one can be himself except by first knowing himself
  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted9 years ago
    He clearly also expects people to find themselves and be true to themselves, and to leave their neighbours to do the same: he would wish every man to be an everlasting question-mark.
  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted9 years ago
    He regards drinking, gluttony, gambling, sport and the passions of love—the whole universe for the average man—as unnecessary; as, at the best, stimulants for the years when life goes flat.
  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted9 years ago
    The clay with which it was built was said to have been kneaded not with water but with the precious essential oils of flowers. His guides, sniffing the air, led him from one crumbling room to the next, saying, ‘This is jessamine, this is violet, this is rose.’ But at last an Arab said, ‘Come and smell the sweetest scent of all,’ and they went to the main hall, where they drank in the calm, empty, eddyless desert wind. ‘This,’ said the Arab, ‘is the best, it has no taste.’
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