Every now and then one finds an incredible quote that is just breathtaking. The ones that cross my mind today are all except the last written in French. If you're a Frenchie like me then this is the right post for you, if not don't despair, I'll be posting new quotes, well, only every now and then ...
Tout enfant, j'ai senti dans mon cœur deux sentiments contradictoires : l'horreur de la vie et l'extase de la vie.
Tout enfant, j'ai senti dans mon cœur deux sentiments contradictoires : l'horreur de la vie et l'extase de la vie.
Baudelaire - Mon coeur mis à nu
On ne sait rien de soi. On croit s'habituer a être soi, c'est le contraire. Plus les années passent et moins on comprend qui est cette personne au nom de laquelle on dit et fait les choses.
Amélie Nothomb - les catilinaires
Je suis de ceux qui aiment et non de ceux qui haissent.
Antigone - Jean Anouilh
Si tu ne deviens pas hypocrite, lui disait-il, peut être tu seras un homme.
Stendhal - La chartreuse de Parme
Change of self is loss of self, according to the traditional Greek attitude. Categorized as madness, it is held to be an unquestionable evil. Sokrates does not agree: I must say this story is not true, the story that a nonlover should be gratified in preference to a lover on the grounds that the latter is mad while the former is sane. Now, if it were a simple fact that madness is evil, the story would be fine. But the fact is, the greatest of good things come to us through madness when it is conferred as a gift of the gods.
Anne Carson - Eros the bittersweet
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