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Lewis Carroll, pseudonyme de Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, est un romancier, essayiste, photographe et professeur de mathématiques britannique né le 27 janvier 1832 à Daresbury, dans le Cheshire et mort le 14 janvier 1898 à Guildford.

✵ 27. janvier 1832 – 14. janvier 1898
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“Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll citation: “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”

Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Variante: But if I’m not the same, the next question is, ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
Source: Alice in Wonderland

“Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.”

Variante: Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”

Variante: I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”

Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Variante: Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Source: Alice in Wonderland

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”

The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”

“I don’t know,” Alice answered.

“Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”

Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Variante: One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”

This is a paraphrase of statement in a thank you note from Carroll to a childhood friend, the actress Ellen Terry, published in Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time (1997), p. 126 https://books.google.com/books?id=2PkzZ9KaRlwC&lpg=PA126&vq=%22do%20for%20others%22&pg=PA126#v=snippet&q=%22do%20for%20others%22&f=fals by Nina Auerbach: "... and so you have found out that secret — one of the deep secrets of Life — that all, that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others?"
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“Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”

Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“Is all our Life, then, but a dream
Seen faintly in the golden gleam
Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?”

Lewis Carroll livre Sylvie and Bruno

Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Contexte: p>Is all our Life, then, but a dream
Seen faintly in the golden gleam
Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?Bowed to the earth with bitter woe
Or laughing at some raree-show
We flutter idly to and fro.Man's little Day in haste we spend,
And, from its merry noontide, send
No glance to meet the silent end.</p

“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”

Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“I don't think… then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”

Lewis Carroll livre Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”

Variante: I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

“Curiouser and curiouser.”

Variante: Curiouser and curiouser!
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

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