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1 " Le passé et le présent sont deux statues incomplètes: l'une a été retirée toute mutilée du débris des âges, l'autre n'a pas encore reçu sa perfection de l'avenir. "
― François-René de Chateaubriand , René
2 " ô enfance du coeur humain qui ne vieillit jamais! voilà donc à quel degré de puérilité notre superbe raison peut descendre! Et encore est-il vrai que bien des hommes attachent leur destinée à des choses d'aussi peu de valeur que mes feuilles de saule. "
3 " One is not, my dear sir, a superior man merely because one sees the world in an odious light. One only hates mankind and life itself through failing to look deeply enough. "
4 " Hesitating, at the threshold of various illusory paths of life, I considered them one by one, without daring to pursue any one of them. "
5 " I was simply occupied with tailoring myself to society's standard. "
6 " Levantai-vos breve, ó desejadas tempestades que deveis transportas René para os céus de uma vida diferente, "
7 " Plus notre coeur est tumultueux et bruyant, plus le calme et le silence nous attirent. "
8 " The forces of nature and the feebleness of man: a weed often pierces the solid marble of those tombs, that all the dead, once so powerful, cannot now remove. "
9 " There and then I promptly resolved to end, in rural exile, a career scarcely begun, in which I had already consumed centuries. "
10 " Homem, tua estação migratória ainda não chegou. Espera que se levante o vento da morte, então desferirás o teu vôo para esses países ignorados que o teu coração deseja. "