“Musicians are seldom unemotional; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed.”
Les musiciennes sont presque toujours amoureuses. Celle qui chantait ainsi devait savoir bien aimer.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part II: A Woman Without a Heart
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Les musiciennes sont presque toujours amoureuses. Celle qui chantait ainsi devait savoir bien aimer.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part II: A Woman Without a Heart
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Original: La donna complicata, pazza e audace... la donna che scolpisce il pensiero, che sa emozionare e affascinare... la donna che profuma di vita e amore: rapisce mente, anima e cuore.
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“They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered.”
Source: Volkhavaar (1977), Chapter 11 (p. 100)
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The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world.
All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.
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“A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.”
Un homme doit savoir braver l'opinion; une femme s'y soumettre.
Delphine (1802), epigraph
The epigraph is taken from the writings of de Staël's mother, Suzanne Necker.
You Love the Thunder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Love_the_Thunder (1977)