Lady Diana Cooper citations

Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Cooper, vicomtesse Norwich, née Lady Diana Manners à Londres le 29 août 1892 et morte dans cette ville le 16 juin 1986, est une femme du monde britannique, figure glamour célèbre, tant à Londres qu'à Paris. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. août 1892 – 16. juin 1986
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“With experience of age I have learned to control this habit of sympathy which deforms truth.”

"Winston and Clementine" http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=761
Contexte: It has always been my temptation to put myself in other people's shoes: even into a horse's shoes as he strains before the heavy dray; into a ballerina's points as she feels age weigh upon her spring; into Cinderella's slippers as she danced till midnight; into the jackboot that kicks; into the Tommy's boots that tramp; into the magic seven-leaguers. With experience of age I have learned to control this habit of sympathy which deforms truth.

“You have never, I think, known real Grief”

Letter to Evelyn Waugh (1 January 1954)
Contexte: You have never, I think, known real Grief — panic, melancholia, madness, night-sweats, we've all known for most of our lives — you and me particularly. I'm not sure you know human love in the way I do. You have faith and mysticism — intense inner interests — a diverting, virile mind — gusto for vengeance and destruction if necessary, a fancy — a gospel.
What you can't imagine is a creature with a certain iridescent aura and nothing within but a beating frightened heart built round and for Duff... For two days I am quite alone — in these empty rooms with one thought one prayer — "let it end now" — an absurd feminine desire to die in the same way exactly as Duff. [ I have now a ] fearlessness of death — so let it come now before custom of living disinclines me for dying.

“I'm not sure you know human love in the way I do.”

Letter to Evelyn Waugh (1 January 1954)
Contexte: You have never, I think, known real Grief — panic, melancholia, madness, night-sweats, we've all known for most of our lives — you and me particularly. I'm not sure you know human love in the way I do. You have faith and mysticism — intense inner interests — a diverting, virile mind — gusto for vengeance and destruction if necessary, a fancy — a gospel.
What you can't imagine is a creature with a certain iridescent aura and nothing within but a beating frightened heart built round and for Duff... For two days I am quite alone — in these empty rooms with one thought one prayer — "let it end now" — an absurd feminine desire to die in the same way exactly as Duff. [ I have now a ] fearlessness of death — so let it come now before custom of living disinclines me for dying.

“It has always been my temptation to put myself in other people's shoes: even into a horse's shoes as he strains before the heavy dray”

"Winston and Clementine" http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=761
Contexte: It has always been my temptation to put myself in other people's shoes: even into a horse's shoes as he strains before the heavy dray; into a ballerina's points as she feels age weigh upon her spring; into Cinderella's slippers as she danced till midnight; into the jackboot that kicks; into the Tommy's boots that tramp; into the magic seven-leaguers. With experience of age I have learned to control this habit of sympathy which deforms truth.

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