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„Чувство, которое изображают, и чувство, которое испытывают, почти неразличимы.“
Из учения экзистенциалистов
„Ах, каким целительным кажется для всякого живого существа воздух, которым никто еще не дышал!“
воздух
Источник: Фальшивомонетчики
Андре Жид: Цитаты на английском языке
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
Frequently misattributed to Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain.
Источник: https://books.google.com/books?id=xUtdDnEhkMMC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false
Источник: Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d'automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)
Literature and Ethics, entry for 1901
Journals 1889-1949
Toutes choses sont dites déjà; mais comme personne n'écoute, il faut toujours recommencer.
Le Traité du Narcisse https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Trait%C3%A9_du_narcisse (The Treatise of the Narcissus)
Nothing is said that has not been said before. -- Terence
Maurice in “Characters,” p. 298
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
Контексте: In my present insistence on high standards you will see that there is less self-indulgence than resolve and application. I do not let the Christian monopolize the ideal of perfection. I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.
“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”
Источник: The Immoralist
On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage.
Often misquoted as "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Frequently misattributed to Christopher Columbus.
Вариант: Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Источник: Les faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters] (1925)
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
Si le grain ne meurt [If It Die] (1924), ch. III
Источник: Autumn Leaves
“Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.”
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Вариант: Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it
Контексте: Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.”
Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897), Envoi
Вариант: Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Контексте: What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.
“Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.”
La sagesse n'est pas dans la raison, mais dans l'amour.
Les Nourritures Terrestres [Fruits of the Earth] (1897), book I
Источник: Autumn Leaves