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“Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.”
Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre
“After all, is there any person so unhappy, so abandoned, that he doesn’t have a little den into which he can withdraw and hide away from everyone? Nothing more elaborate is needed for the journey.”
Xavier de Maistre, A Journey Around my Room
“I have come to the conclusion, by way of various observations, that man is composed of a soul and a beast. These two beings are absolutely distinct, but closely fitted together, or one on top of the other, that the soul must have a certain superiority over the beast to be in a position to draw a distinction between them.”
Xavier de Maistre, Journey Around My Room and a Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room
“O sweet solitude! I have known the charms with which you intoxicate your admirers. Woe to the man who cannot be alone for a single hour of his life without feeling the torment of ennui, and who would rather, if he must, converse with fools than with himself!”
Xavier de Maistre, Journey Around My Room and a Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room
“When I have had enough of tears and love, I turn to some poet, and set out again for a new world.”
Xavier de Maistre
“للأسف، من النادر جداً أن يتعرّف القُبح على نفسه ويكسر المرآة!”
Xavier de Maistre
“Quando estiverdes a ler um livro, e uma ideia agradável vos vier de súbito à imaginação, a vossa alma agarra-se-lhe de imediato e esquece o livro, ao passo que os vossos olhos seguem maquinalmente as palavras e as linhas; terminais a página sem compreender nem recordar o que haveis lido. - Isso acontece porque a alma, tendo ordenado ao companheiro que realizasse a leitura, não o advertiu da pequena ausência que iria fazer; deste modo, o outro continuava a leitura que a vossa alma já não escutava.”
Xavier de Maistre, Journey Around My Room and a Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room
“مشهد الطبيعة وتأمُّلها في مجملها وفي التفاصيل يفتحُ أمام العقل كمّاً هائلاً من الملذّات.”
Xavier de Maistre, سفر به دور اتاقم
“What a splendid piece of furniture an armchair is, of utmost importance and usefulness to a contemplative man. During those long winter evenings, it is often sweet and always advisable to stretch out luxuriously in one, far from the din of crowds. A good fire, a few books, some quills - what excellent antidotes to boredom!”
Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre
“چشم انداز طبیعت و تامل در آن، چه در یک قاب و چه در هزار و یک قاب، شاهراه لذت را در برابر خرد آدمی می گشاید. دیری نمی گذرد که پرنده ی خیال بر فراز این اقیانوس لذایذ بال می گسترد و بر شمار و شدت آن می افزاید. هزار احساس رنگارنگ در هم گره می خورند و با هم یکی می شوند و لذایذی نو پدید می آورند. رویای شکوه با تپش های عشق می آمیزد. عزت نفس دست به سوی نیکوکاری دراز می کند و نیکوکاری شانه به شانه ی عزت نفس گام بر می دارد. مالیخولیا گهگاه حریر مجلل خویش را بر سرمان می کشد و اشک هایمان را به لذت بدل می سازد.”
Xavier de Maistre, Voyage autour de ma chambre
“Who can explain the reasons for a daydream?”
Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre
“¿No es en la cama donde una madre, embriagada de felicidad por el nacimiento de su hijo, olvida sus dolores? Es ahí donde los fantásticos gozos, producto de la imaginación y la esperanza, vienen a agitarnos. En fin, es en este mueble delicioso que olvidamos durante la mitad de la vida los pesares de la otra mitad”
Xavier de Maistre, A Journey Round My Room
“Een bed ziet ons geboren worden en ziet ons doodgaan; het is een wisselend toneel waar het mensdom beurtelings boeiende drama's, lachwekkende kluchten en afschuwelijke treurspelen opvoer. - Het is een met bloemen versierde wieg; - het is de troon der liefde; - het is een graf.”
Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Autour De Ma Chambre
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“The ephemeral spectator of an eternal spectacle, man raises his eyes a moment to the sky, then shuts them forever; yet during that brief moment granted him, from every point of the sky, from every limit of the universe, a consoling beam is cast from each world and meets his gaze to tell him that there is indeed a connection between infinity and him, and that he is part of eternity.”
Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre
“از عزیمت آرگونات ها تا تشکیل مجمع نخبگان، از آن ژرفنای دوزخ تا واپسین اختر میخکوب بر دامان راه شیری، تا مرزهای کیهان تا دروازه های آشوب ازلی... این است گستره ی فراخی که من در طول و عرض آن گام می زنم، یکسره نیز به تفریح و تفنن، زیرا نه دچار فقدان زمانم و نه گرفتار در تنگنای مکان. این است باراندازی که با پیروی از گام های هومر، میلتون، ویرژیل، اوسیان و دیگران بار هستی خود را بدان جا می کشانم.”
Xavier de Maistre, Voyage autour de ma chambre
“Happy is he who finds a friend whose heart and mind harmonize with his own; a friend who adheres to him by likeness of tastes, feeling, and knowledge; a friend who is not the prey of ambition or greediness, who prefers the shade of a tree to the pomp of a court! Happy is he who has a friend!”
Xavier de Maistre, A Journey Round My Room
“Mi biblioteca, ya que es preciso decíroslo, se compone de novelas... sí, de novelas... y de algunos poetas escogidos.
Como si no tuviese bastante con mis propios males, comparto aún voluntariamente los de mil personajes imaginarios, y los siento tan vivamente como los míos.”
Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre
“چه شکوهمند است طرحی نو درانداختن و یکباره گام نهادن در جهان دانشمندان، با اکتشاف نامه ای در دست، درست همچون ستاره ای دنباله دار که ناگهان در آسمان می درخشد!.”
Xavier de Maistre, Voyage autour de ma chambre
“Bir yatakta doğar, bir yatakta ölürüz. İnsan soyunun ilginç dramları, gülünç komedileri ve korkunç trajedileri oynadığı gerçek sahnedir burası. Çiçeklerle süslü bir beşiktir; Aşk Tanrıçası'nın tahtıdır; mezardır.”
Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier de Maistre
“¡Feliz aquel que encuentre un amigo cuyo corazón y mente lo comprendan!, ¡un amigo que se una a él por una comunión de gustos, sentimientos y convicciones!, ¡un amigo sin el tormento de la ambición o el interés, que prefiera la sombra de un árbol a las pompas de una corte! ¡feliz el que posee un amigo!”
Xavier de Maistre, A Journey Round My Room
“¿En verdad es posible ser tan desdichado, estar tan aislado como para no tener un refugio para apartarse y esconderse de la gente”
Xavier de Maistre, Voyage autour de ma chambre

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