The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now.
The day before yesterday, in the woods of Touques, in a charming spot beside a spring, I found old cigar butts and scraps of pâté. People had been picnicking. I described such a scene in eleven years...
Szeretett volna nem élni vagy mindig aludni.
Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague she of all the poetry books.
She wants to be forced to occupy herself with some manual work. If she were obliged, like so many others, to earn her living, she wouldn’t have these vapours, that come to her from a lot of ideas she...
She put him near the front door and a number of visitors were surprised that he would not answer to the name 'Polly', which is what all parrots were supposed to be called.
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.
Se lăuda că își cunoaște limba și purica cele mai frumoase fraze cu acea severitate haină, acel gust academic care caracterizează persoanele zvăpăiate cînd se ocupă de arta serioasă./ Il se vantait de...
Prima di sposarsi, Emma aveva creduto di essere innamorata, ma la felicità che avrebbe dovuto nascere da questo amore non esisteva, ed ella pensava ormai di essersi sbagliata. Cercava ora di capire co...
Prima di sposarsi, Emma aveva creduto d'amare; ma la felicità che avrebbe dovuto nascere dal quell'amore non era venuta, e pensava che doveva essersi sbagliata. Ella cercava ora, di sapere che cosa vo...
Posseïa aquella bellesa indefinible que resulta de la joia, de l'entusiasme, de l'èxit, i que no és sinó una conjunció harmoniosa de les circumstàncies i del temperament.
Ponekad mi se vaše reči vraćaju u svest kao daleki odjek, kao zvuk zvona koji donosi vetar; i čini mi se da ste tu, kraj mene, kad u knjigama čitam odlomke koji govore o ljubavi.
Pero cuanto más conciencia tomaba Emma de su amor, más lo reprimía para que no se notara y para que disminuyese. Le hubiera gustado que Léon lo adivinara; e imaginaba casualidades, catástrofes que hub...
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole hea...
Leon at once envied the calm of the tomb, and one evening he had even made his will, asking to be buried in that beautiful rug with velvet stripes he had received from her. For this was how they would...
Je voudrais bien être mystique ; il doit y avoir de belles voluptés à croire au paradis, à se noyer dans des flots d'encens, à s'anéantir au pied de la Croix, . . . c'est une belle chose que l'autel c...
J'ai rêvé la gloire quand j'étais tout enfant, et maintenant je n'ai même plus l'orgueil de la médiocrité.
Il citait du latin, tant il était exaspéré.