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Rafael Sabatini, né le 29 avril 1875 à Jesi, dans la province d'Ancône, dans la région des Marches, en Italie, et mort le 13 février 1950 à Adelboden, dans le canton de Berne, en Suisse, est un écrivain italo-britannique de la première moitié du XXe siècle, spécialisé dans le roman d'amour, le récit d'aventures historiques. Il a également publié des nouvelles, dont plusieurs, appartenant au genre policier, se déroulent à des moments clés de l'histoire. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. avril 1875 – 13. février 1950  •  Autres noms Sabatini
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Rafael Sabatini: 19 citations0 J'aime

Rafael Sabatini: Citations en anglais

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Scaramouche

This is the opening line of the novel. Sabatini used it as his epitaph.
Variante: He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.
Source: Scaramouche (1921), Ch. I: "The Republican"

“When we know all of whatever it may be, we can never do anything but forgive, madame. That is the profoundest religious truth that was ever written. It contains, in fact, a whole religion—the noblest religion any man could have to guide him.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Scaramouche

Source: Scaramouche (1921), Ch. XIV: "The Barrier"

“But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Scaramouche

Book 1, Chapter 9
Source: Scaramouche

“… it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Scaramouche

Source: Scaramouche

“A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Captain Blood

Source: Captain Blood

“Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.'
'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Scaramouche

Source: Scaramouche

“Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Scaramouche

Book 3, Chapter 16
Source: Scaramouche

“To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Scaramouche

Source: Scaramouche

“Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.”

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Rafael Sabatini

Source: Fortune's Fool

“Truth is so often disconcerting.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Scaramouche

Source: Scaramouche

“Bestir, ladies! To your chaise, and see that you contrive to look your best. Soon the eyes of Guichen will be upon you, and the condition of your interior to-morrow will depend upon the impression made by your exterior to-day.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Scaramouche

Book II. Chapter 2. The Service of Thespis
Scaramouche (1921)

“It was heroic!"
"Heroic, is it? Bedad, it's epic! Ye begin to perceive the breadth and depth of my genius.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Captain Blood

Source: Captain Blood (1922), Ch. IX: "The Rebels-Convict"

“They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Scaramouche

Book III : Chapter 2. Quos Deus Vult Perdere
Scaramouche (1921)

“You have changed a certainty into a possibility, and I hate possibilities — God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Scaramouche

Book II : Chapter 11. The Fracas at the Theatre Feydau
Scaramouche (1921)

“Mr Pollexfen was at one and the same time right and wrong—a condition much more common than is generally supposed.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Captain Blood

Source: Captain Blood (1922), Ch. IV: "Human Merchandise"

“"Sir!" she checked him. "I think you are talking treason."
"I hope I am not obscure," said he.”

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Rafael Sabatini livre Captain Blood

Source: Captain Blood (1922), Ch. V: "Arabella Bishop"

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