Thomas Wolfe, The Web and the Rock
"It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh, and violent catacomb of stone an steel and tunneled rock, slashed savagely with light, and roaring, fighting a constant ceaseless warfare of men and of machinery; and yet it was so sweetly and so delicately pulsed, as full of warmth, of passion, and of love, as it was full of hate."
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"It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh, and violent catacomb of stone an steel and tunneled rock, slashed savagely with light, and roaring, fighting a constant ceaseless warfare of men and of machinery; and yet it was so sweetly and so delicately pulsed, as full of warmth, of passion, and of love, as it was full of hate."
"كانت مدينة قاسية، لكنها فاتنة؛ مدينة متوحشة، لكنها تضج بالرقة. متاهة مريرة، خشنة، وعنيفة من الحجر والفولاذ والصخر المحفور، تخترقها الأضواء بوحشية، وتزمجر، تخوض حرباً لا هوادة فيها بين البشر والآلات؛ ومع ذلك، كانت تنبض بعذوبة ورقة بالغة، تفيض بالدفء والشغف والحب، بقدر ما تفيض بالكراهية."
Thomas Wolfe, The Web and the Rock
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