Marguerite Yourcenar: Citations en anglais
Marguerite Yourcenar était écrivaine française. Citations en anglais.
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“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul…”
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Mémoires d'Hadrien
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.”
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L'Œuvre au noir
Author's note, p. 367
The Abyss (1968)
Contexte: In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir … designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.
Alexis (1929)
Contexte: Every silence is composed of nothing but unspoken words. Perhaps that is why I became a musician. Someone had to express this silence, make it render up all the sadness it contained, make it sing as it were. Someone had to use not words, which are always too precise not to be cruel, but simply music.
Marguerite Yourcenar
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L'Œuvre au noir
Author's note, p. 367
The Abyss (1968)
Contexte: In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir … designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.
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Mémoires d'Hadrien
Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), p. 33
“Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.”
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Mémoires d'Hadrien
Rien n'est plus lent que la véritable naissance d'un homme.
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), p. 258
“There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.”
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Mémoires d'Hadrien
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“Few bipeds, from Adam's time down, have been worthy of the name of man.”
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L'Œuvre au noir
Peu de bipèdes depuis Adam ont mérité le nom d'homme.
"A Conversation in Innsbruck", p. 114
The Abyss (1968)
Marguerite Yourcenar
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Mémoires d'Hadrien
Je savais que le bien comme le mal est affaire de routine, que le temporaire se prolonge, que l'extérieur s'infiltre au dedans, et que le masque, à la longue, devient visage.
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), p. 97
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Denier du rêve
Le malheur est que, parfois, des souhaits s'accomplissent, afin que se perpétue le supplice de l'espérance.
Denier du rêve (1934), translated as A Coin in Nine Hands (1994) by Dori Katz, Ch. 3, p. 31 ISBN 0-226-96527-9
“To have merit to abstain from a fault, is a manner to be guilty.”
Avoir du mérite à s'abstenir d'une faute, c'est une façon d'être coupable.
Alexis (1929)
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L'Œuvre au noir
The Highroad, p. 11<!-- Le Grand Chemin p. 564 -->
The Abyss (1968)
“We believe ourselves pure as long as we despise what we do not desire.”
Nous nous croyons purs tant que nous méprisons ce que nous ne désirons pas.
Alexis (1929)
“One must not fear the words anymore when one consented to the things.”
On ne doit plus craindre les mots lorsqu'on a consenti aux choses.
Alexis (1929)