“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.”
Graziella (1849), Pt. IV, ch. 5
Quotes from book
Graziella
Alphonse de Lamartine
Original title
Graziella
(French, 1852)
Graziella is an 1852 novel by the French author Alphonse de Lamartine. It tells of a young French man who falls for a fisherman's granddaughter – the eponymous Graziella – during a trip to Naples, Italy; they are separated when he must return to France, and she soon dies. Based on the author's experiences with a tobacco-leaf folder while in Naples in the early 1810s, Graziella was first written as a journal, and intended to serve as commentary for Lamartine's poem "Le Premier Regret".
