“Così non ho nessuno con cui dire le vere parole: le vere parole, di tutta la nostra storia così com’è stata: e me le teno dentro, e certe volte me pare che mi strozzino il fiatto.”
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“Parfois, ils se forçaient à l’espérance, ils cherchaient à reprendre les rêves brûlants d’autrefois, et ils demeuraient tout étonnés, en voyant que leur imagination était vide.”
― Thérèse Raquin
― Thérèse Raquin
“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
“D’ailleurs, quoique enragés d’égalité blessée (ce sentiment, qui, à lui seul, explique les horreurs de la Révolution), ces bourgeois avaient gardé, malgré eux, la superstition des respects qu’ils n’avaient plus.”
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“Nous comprenions tous une partie du mystère, dit-il, mais personne ne le comprenait en entier.”
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