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Coup de Grâce QUOTES

Coup de Grâce QUOTES

1 " Il racconto è scritto in prima persona e messo in bocca al personaggio principale, procedimento per il quale io ho una certa predilezione perché elimina dal libro il punto di vista dell'autore, o almeno i suoi commenti, e perché permette di mostrare un essere umano che fronteggia la sua stessa vita e si sforza più o meno onestamente di spiegarla e innanzitutto di ricordarsela. "

― Marguerite Yourcenar , Coup de Grâce

2 " Nothing moves me more than courage: so total a sacrifice deserved complete trust from me. But she never believed that I trusted her, since she did not suspect how much I distrusted others. In spite of appearances to the contrary, I do not regret having yielded to Sophie as much as it lay in my nature to do; at the first glance I had caught sight of something in her incorruptible, with which one could make a compact as sure, and as dangerous, as with an element itself. Fire may be trusted, provided one knows that its law is to burn, or die. "

― Marguerite Yourcenar , Coup de Grâce

3 " One is always punished out of season. "

― Marguerite Yourcenar , Coup de Grâce

4 " Friendship affords total certitude above all and that is what distinguishes it from love. It means respect as well and total acceptance of another being. "

― Marguerite Yourcenar , Coup de Grâce

5 " A amizade é, acima de tudo, certeza - é isso o que a distingue do amor. "

― Marguerite Yourcenar , Coup de Grâce

6 " Era demasiado jovem para ter ideia que de que a existência não é feita de arrebatamentos súbitos e de obstinada constância, mas de compromissos e de esquecimentos. "

― Marguerite Yourcenar , Coup de Grâce

7 " La crudeltà è un lusso da oziosi, come le droghe e le camicie di seta. "

― Marguerite Yourcenar , Coup de Grâce

8 " J'ai vécu durant ces quelques semaines aussi libre d'inquiétudes que si je devais mourir le lendemain, ou vivre toujours. "

― Marguerite Yourcenar , Coup de Grâce

9 " Le danger fait sortir le pire de l'âme humaine, et le meilleur aussi. "

― Marguerite Yourcenar , Coup de Grâce

10 " J'éteignis la lampe, comme on la rallume après avoir fait l'amour. "

― Marguerite Yourcenar , Coup de Grâce