Vladimir Nabokov, Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories
"She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the incalculable amount of tenderness contained in the world; of the fate of this tenderness, which is either crushed or wasted, or transformed into madness; of neglected children humming to themselves in unswept corners; of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer."
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"She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the incalculable amount of tenderness contained in the world; of the fate of this tenderness, which is either crushed or wasted, or transformed into madness; of neglected children humming to themselves in unswept corners; of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer."
"فكرت في أمواج الألم المتكررة التي اضطرت هي وزوجها، لسبب أو لآخر، إلى تحملها؛ في العمالقة الخفيين الذين يؤذون ولدها بطريقة لا يمكن تصورها؛ في الكم الهائل من الحنان الذي يحتويه العالم؛ في مصير هذا الحنان، الذي إما أن يُسحق أو يُهدر، أو يتحول إلى جنون؛ في الأطفال المهملين الذين يدندنون لأنفسهم في الزوايا غير المكنوسة؛ في الأعشاب الجميلة التي لا تستطيع الاختباء من الفلاح."
Vladimir Nabokov, Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories
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