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Alice aux pays des merveilles

Alice aux pays des merveilles

Source: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass

Variante: I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.
Source: Alice in Wonderland

Source: Through the Looking Glass

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Variante: If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.
Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Preface
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Contexte: I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story — I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it — but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea' — is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.

Preface
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Contexte: I believe this thought, of the possibility of death — if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

Source: Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Chapter 25 : Looking Eastward

Preface
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Contexte: I believe this thought, of the possibility of death — if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Source: Through the Looking Glass

Solitude (1853), conclusion
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
Contexte: p>Ye golden hours of Life's young spring,
Of innocence, of love and truth!
Bright, beyond all imagining,
Thou fairy-dream of youth!I'd give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life's decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer-day.</p

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Variante: She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Alice Through the Looking Glass

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

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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