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“Elle aimait ce garçon de cette tendresse bavarde que les vieilles femmes ont pour les gens qui viennent de leur pays, apportant avec eux des souvenirs du passé.”
― Thérèse Raquin
― Thérèse Raquin
“Elle avait les gestes discrets et monastiques des femmes habituées à se chérir elles-mêmes, sans doute pour ne pas faillir à leur destinée d’amour.”
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“Le sentiment que l'homme supporte le plus difficilement est la pitié, surtout quand il la mérite.”
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“Fidèle à cette charte de l’égoïsme, le monde prodigue ses rigueurs aux misères assez hardies pour venir affronter ses fêtes, pour chagriner ses plaisirs.”
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“We must at the outset sadly acknowledge that Mozart, despite his passionate nature, his susceptibility to all the delights of this life and to all that is within the highest reach of the human imagination, and notwithstanding all he had experienced, enjoyed and created in the short span allotted to him, had nevertheless all his life lacked a stable and untroubled feeling of inner contentment.
Without probing deeper than we need into the causes of this phenomenon, we may in the first instance perhaps find them simply in those habitual and apparently insuperable weaknesses which we so readily, and not without some reason, perceive as somehow necessarily associated with everything in him that we most admire.”
― Mozart's Journey to Prague
Without probing deeper than we need into the causes of this phenomenon, we may in the first instance perhaps find them simply in those habitual and apparently insuperable weaknesses which we so readily, and not without some reason, perceive as somehow necessarily associated with everything in him that we most admire.”
― Mozart's Journey to Prague
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