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Carmen QUOTES

Carmen QUOTES

1 " I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more. "

― Prosper Mérimée , Carmen

2 " Carmen will always be free. "

― Prosper Mérimée , Carmen

3 " Sir, a man may turn rogue in sheer thoughtlessness. You lose your head over a pretty girl, you fight another man about her, there is a catastrophe, you have to take to the mountains, and you turn from a smuggler into a robber before you have time to think about it. "

― Prosper Mérimée , Carmen

4 " Yes, I'll follow you, even to death - but I won't live with you any more. "

― Prosper Mérimée , Carmen

5 " I don't love you any more. You love me still, and that is why you want to kill me. "

― Prosper Mérimée , Carmen

6 " She lied, sir. She has always lied. I don't think she ever spoke a word of truth. But when she spoke, I believed her. "

― Prosper Mérimée , Carmen

7 " Si tu ne m'aimes pas, je t'aime
si je t'aime, prends garde à toi! "

― Prosper Mérimée , Carmen

8 " She had a strange, wild beauty, a face that was disconcerting at first, but unforgettable. Her eyes in particular had an expression, at once voluptuous and fierce, that I have never seen on any human face. 'Gypsy's eye, wolf's eye' is a phrase Spaniards apply to people with keen powers of observation. "

― Prosper Mérimée , Carmen

9 " The dog and the wolf can't agree for long. "

― Prosper Mérimée , Carmen

10 " The adjutant was a distant relative of Falcone. (It is a well-known fact that in Corsica degrees of kinship are traced much further back than is the case elsewhere.) His name was Tiodoro Gamba. He was a zealous man, much feared by the bandits, several of whom he had already tracked down. "

― Prosper Mérimée , Carmen

11 " This kind of dense brushwood is known as maquis It is made up of various species of tree and shrub, tangled and intertwined at Nature’s whim. A man would need an axe to force a way through, and sometimes the maquis can be so dense and overgrown that even the wild sheep cannot penetrate it. If you have killed a man, go to the maquis above Porto-Vecchio, and you will be able to live in safety there, with a good rifle, gunpowder, and bullets. "

― Prosper Mérimée , Carmen

12 " The shepherds will give you milk, cheese, and chestnuts; and you will have nothing to fear from the law or from the dead man’s relatives, except when you have to go down to the town to replenish your ammunition. "

― Prosper Mérimée , Carmen