“Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage...”
― Théophile Gautier, quote from Clarimonde
“The famous courtesan Clarimonde died recently, as the result of an orgy which lasted eight days and eight nights. It was something infernally
magnificent. They revived the abominations of the feasts of Belshazzar and Cleopatra. Great God!
what an age this is in which we live! The guests were served by swarthy slaves speaking an unknown tongue, who to my mind had every appearance of veritable demons; the livery of the meanest among them might have served as a gala-costume for an emperor. There have always been current some very
strange stories concerning this Clarimonde, and all her lovers have come to a miserable or a violent end. It has been said that she was a ghoul, a female vampire; but I believe that she was Beelzebub in person.”
― Théophile Gautier, quote from Clarimonde
“If thou wilt be mine, I shall make thee happier than God Himself in His paradise. The angels themselves will be jealous of thee. Tear off that funeral shroud in which thou art about to wrap thyself. I am Beauty, I am Youth, I am Life. Come to me! Together we shall be Love. Can Jehovah offer thee aught in exchange? Our lives will flow on like a dream, in one eternal kiss.”
― Théophile Gautier, quote from Clarimonde
“Yes, I have loved as none in the world ever loved—with an insensate and furious passion—so violent that I am astonished it did not cause my heart to burst asunder. Ah, what nights—what nights!”
― Théophile Gautier, quote from Clarimonde
“„Ochii ei erau cu adevărat poem iar privirile alcătuiau fiecare un cântec.”
― Théophile Gautier, quote from Clarimonde
Théophile Gautier
Born place: in Tarbes, France
Born date August 30, 1811
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“Most people think they want Main Streets but won't make the small sacrifices in terms of time, cost, and footpower necessary to sustain them. The sad fact is that we have created a culture in which most people will happily-indeed, unthinkingly-drive an extra couple of miles to walk thirty less feet.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“And it came to her that the pleasure and stability of dining rooms had always occurred against such a backdrop, against the catastrophic background of universal chaos; such moments of calm were things as fragile and transitory as soap bubbles, destined to burst almost as soon as they blew into existence. Groups of friends, rooms, streets, years, none of them would last. The illusion of stability was created by a concerted effort to ignore the chaos they were imbedded in. And so they ate, and talked, and enjoyed each other’s company; this was the way it had been in the caves, on the savannah, in the tenements and the trenches and the cities huddling under bombardment.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
“ان ما يميز المجتمع في العصور الوسطى عن المجتمع الحديث هو نقصه من الحرية الفردية. لقد كان كل فرد من الفترة المبكرة مقيدا بدوره في النظام الاجتماعي. لم تكن امام الانسان سوى فرصة واهنة للتحرك اجتماعيا من طبقة الى اخرى, بل لا يكود يكون قادرا على الحركة حتى جغرافيا من مدينة الى اخرى او من بلد الى آخر. وفيما عدا استثناءات قليلة عليه ان يمكث حيث ولد. بل انه كان في الاغلب غير حر في ان يلبس كما يهوى او ان يأكل كما يشاء. وكان على الاسطى ان يبع حسب سعر معين وكان على الفلاح ان يبيع عند مكان معين. وكان محرما على عضو النقابة ان يفشي اية اسرار تقنية خاصة بالانتاج لاي فرد ليس عضوا في نقابته وكان مرغما على ان يدع زملاءه من اعضاء نقابته يشاركونه في اية عملية شراء مفيدة للمادة الخام. لقد هيمنت على الحياة الشخصية والاقتصادية والاجتماعية قواعد والزامات لم يفلت منها من الناحية العملية اي مجال من مجالات النشاط.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
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― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
“Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.”
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