“When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.”
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
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“If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract the price from others.”
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999)
“I proved unfaithful to my former spouse,
And now I reap the fruits of broken vows!”
Book IV, line 797
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)
“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
El original es infiel a la traducción.
Jorge Luis Borges "Sobre el Vathek de William Beckford" (1943), in Otras inquisiciones: 1937-1952 (Buenos Aires: Sur, 1952) p. 163; "About William Beckford's Vathek", in Ruth L. C. Simms (trans.) Other Inquisitions: 1937-1952 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964) p. 140.
On Henley's translation of Vathek.
Nous désirons passionnément qu'il y ait une autre vie où nous serions pareils à ce que nous sommes ici-bas. Mais nous ne réfléchissons pas que, même sans attendre cette autre vie, dans celle-ci, au bout de quelques années, nous sommes infidèles à ce que nous avons été, à ce que nous voulions rester immortellement.
Pt. II, Ch. 2
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. IV: Cities of the Plain (1921-1922)
“It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.”
Source: Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943), p. 51
“The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.”
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 89 (Vintage 2003)
“My whole life has been one big broken promise.”
Source: How to Save a Life
“This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people”
Source: The Unquiet