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Even rulers, notoriously the slowest of men to change, realized that something had to be done.
The 10th Victim (1965)
Love is a wonderful game which begins in fun and ends in marriage.
The 10th Victim (1965)
For the question inevitably remains, is Polletti’s admission of fear a magnificent conquest of the unconquerable, or a mere admission of the inadmissable?
The 10th Victim (1965)
She was an extremely attractive woman if you like the type, which could best be described as homicidal schizophrenic paranoiac with kittenish overtones.
The 10th Victim (1965)
For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary insanity, a short-lived state of autosuggestion.
The 10th Victim (1965)
It was as easy as falling off a precipice.
The 10th Victim (1965)
Rome has an ambiance, puerile yet unmatchable. Rome hints at the possibility of becoming the main actor in the drama of one’s own life. (The hint is false, of course; but the stolid northern cities do not even possess the hint.)
The 10th Victim (1965)
For Polletti, experience had brought only the bitter residue of pleasure which is the true essence of disenchantment. Certain delights which in his youth had seemed unique and unobtainable had turned out, upon acquisition, to be infinitely and drearily repeatable.
The 10th Victim (1965)
One moment’s inattention, and the long expected death came at last—unexpectedly! In that agonized moment, sprawled helpless upon the uncaring ground, Polletti realized that no preparation for one’s own death is possible. Death has had too much experience in catching men off guard, in piercing their attitudes and reducing their poses.
The 10th Victim (1965)