Citations sur la beauté et l'apparence
Avec
Il est ici question de Pauline de Grignan, fille de la comtesse de Grignan et petite-fille de Madame de Sévigné.
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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it; and a State which postpones the interests of their mental expansion and elevation, to a little more of administrative skill, or that semblance of it which practice gives, in the details of business; a State, which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything, will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly, it has preferred to banish.
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De la liberté
Recueil de nouvelles, Soleil des loups, 1951, L’Archéologue

Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram
Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna :
Quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna
Est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra
Juppiter et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.
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Passage fameux du chant VI au cours duquel Énée descend vivant aux Enfers, guidé par la Sibylle de Cumes. Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte est un très fameux exemple d' hypallage .
L'Énéide

Il est ici question de sa mère, Suzanne Necker, et de son influence toute littéraire sur sa jeune fille.
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Romans, Comme un chant d'espérance