D'abord sur les yeux, qui avaient tant convoité toutes les somptuosités terrestres ; puis sur les narines, friandes de brises tièdes et de senteurs amoureuses ; puis sur la bouche, qui s'était ouverte...
Coming delights, like tropical beaches, send out their native enchantment over the vast spaces that precede them - a perfumed breeze that lulls and drugs you out of all anxiety as to what may yet awai...
Charles, del resto, non era di quelli che scendono al fondo delle cose; arretrò davanti alle prove, e la sua gelosia incerta si smarrì nell'immensità del suo dolore.
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And...
Beautiful things spoil nothing.
Az a kötelességünk, hogy ráérezzünk arra, ami magasrendű, imádjuk azt, ami szép, nem pedig hogy elfogadjunk minden társadalmi konvenciót azzal a sok gyalázatos dologgal együtt, amit ránk kényszerítene...
Art, like the Jewish God, wallows in sacrifices. So tear yourself to pieces, mortify your flesh, roll in ashes, smear yourself with filth and spittle, wrench out your heart! You will be alone, your fe...
Anyone who lacks respect for religion comes to a bad end.
Accustomed to the calm aspects of things, she turned, instead, toward the more tumultuous. She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it grew up here and there among ruins. She need...
A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she mu...
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Încă de mică o cuprinsese una din acele iubiri de copil care au în același timp puritatea unei religii și violența unei necesități./ Toute petite, elle s’était prise d’un de ces amours d’enfant qui on...
Tolérance est le plus sûr moyen d’attirer les âmes à la religion.
The clang of the band, letting loose, rang out like a brass kettle rolling downstairs,
When she was taken too bad she went off quite alone to the sea-shore, so that the customs officer, going his rounds, often found her lying flat on her face, crying on the shingle. Then, after her marr...
The new delight of independence soon made his loneliness bearable.
The most exaggerated speeches usually hid the weakest of feelings - as though the fullness of the soul did not overflow into the emptiest phrases, since no one can ever express the exact measure of hi...
The more flowery a person’s speech … the more suspect the feelings, or lack of feelings, it concealed.
Standing side by side, on some rising ground, they felt, as they drank in the air, the pride of a life more free penetrating into the depths of their souls, with a superabundance of energy, a joy whic...