“Jerome never liked me -- preferred my sister who was a little fool excited by modern literature -- all swear-words and scatology -- before it became fashionable.”
Jerome's mother
The Pillow Book
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“I swear, there is in me no wizardry of word.
I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree.”
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Przysięgam, nie ma we mnie czarodziejstwa słów.
Mówię do ciebie milcząc, jak obłok czy drzewo.
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