“All afflicts and injures me, and conspires to my injury.”
Tout m'afflige et me nuit, et conspire à me nuire.
Phèdre, act I, scene III.
Phèdre (1677)
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Tout m'afflige et me nuit, et conspire à me nuire.
Phèdre (1677)
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Jean Racine 15
French dramatist 1639–1699Related quotes
“My sins, my wild loves, and Fate herself
have all conspired against me.”
Erros meus, má fortuna, amor ardente
Em minha perdição se conjuraram.
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (2008), ed. William Baer, p. 99
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Erros meus, má fortuna, amor ardente
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), I : The Man of Flesh and Bone
Context: Everything in me that conspires to break the unity and continuity of my life conspires to destroy me and consequently to destroy itself. Every individual in a people who conspires to break the spiritual unity and continuity of that people tends to destroy it and to destroy himself as a part of that people.
“My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.”
Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
Query XVII
1780s, Notes on the State of Virginia
“Alas, time and head injuries are stealing all my memories.”
Review of Women of Wonder, anthology edited by Pamela Sargent https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/by-women-about-women, 2015
2010s
Why I Do Not Cease Teaching and Writing, 1539
“I have not been without battle.
Bitter affliction was frequent
Between me and my cousins.”
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), Oh God, the God of Formation
Context: I have not been without battle.
Bitter affliction was frequent
Between me and my cousins.
Frequent trials fell
Between me and my fellow-countrymen.
There was frequent contention
Between me and the wretched.
The I in the Triangle, speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California (1990)