Either you must do something, or something must be done to you
Maksim Gilimhanovidézett5 évvel ezelőtt
Rid myself of him, I must; go, he shall
Maksim Gilimhanovidézett5 évvel ezelőtt
"What earthly right have you to stay here? Do you pay any rent? Do you pay my taxes? Or is this property yours?"
Maksim Gilimhanovidézett5 évvel ezelőtt
The great point was, not whether I had assumed that he would quit me, but whether he would prefer so to do. He was more a man of preferences than assumptions.
Maksim Gilimhanovidézett5 évvel ezelőtt
"I would prefer not," he replied, with his back still towards me. "You must."
Maksim Gilimhanovidézett5 évvel ezelőtt
but his body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.
Maksim Gilimhanovidézett5 évvel ezelőtt
The bond of a common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom. A fraternal melancholy! For both I and Bartleby were sons of Adam
Maksim Gilimhanovidézett5 évvel ezelőtt
For I consider that one, for the time, is a sort of unmanned when he tranquilly permits his hired clerk to dictate to him, and order him away from his own premises
Maksim Gilimhanovidézett5 évvel ezelőtt
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
Maksim Gilimhanovidézett5 évvel ezelőtt
You are decided, then, not to comply with my request—a request made according to common usage and common sense?"