Alex

“Les âmes se devinent bien avant que la volonté n’ait agi.”
― Barbey d’Aurevilly

“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.”
― Barbey d’Aurevilly

“Les gargouilles et les chéneaux eurent beaux gémir sous d’énormes ruissellements de pluie, on était plus rassuré par l’arrivée du printemps que par la présence de la compagnie de gendarmes. Beaucoup de gens qui ne dormaient pas depuis trois mois retrouvèrent le sommeil au son des grands torrents dévalant les combes.”
― GIONO, Jean

“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.”
― Eduard Morike, Mozart's Journey to Prague