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Break of Day
Colette
L'ingenua libertina
ColetteColette frasi celebri
“Non è la morte l'estrema speranza di una vita cui si è rifiutato un amore?”
Origine: L'ingenua libertina, p. 190
“Una delle cose migliori dell'amore è riconoscere il passo dell'uomo che sale le scale.”
Origine: Da Journal à rebours, 1941.
“Farai delle sciocchezze, ma falle con entusiasmo.”
Origine: Rivolta a sua figlia; citato da Hope Johnson sul New York World-Telegram & Sun, 28 aprile 1961.
Colette Frasi e Citazioni
Origine: Da una lettera a Francis Jammes, aprile 1906; citato in Jean Prieur, Gli animali hanno un'anima, traduzione di Nerina Spicacci, Edizioni Mediterranee, Roma, 2006, p. 45 http://books.google.it/books?id=VneGTjLchuQC&pg=PA45. ISBN 88-272-0828-3
Break of Day
“È saggio applicare l'olio di una raffinata gentilezza ai meccanismi dell'amicizia.”
Origine: Da Le Pur et l'Impur, 1932.
“Noi facciamo bene soltanto le cose che ci piace fare.”
22 luglio 2018, ore 07.48
Origine: [it, https://www.m2o.it/programmi/memories/puntate/memories-del-22-07-2018/, Memories Puntata del 22/07/2018 su m2o Radio, m2o.it]
Colette: Frasi in inglese
“Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.”
L'Envers du music hall (Music Hall Sidelights), "On Tour" (1913)
In Gigi, and Selected Writings (1963).
“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”
My Mother’s House, "The Priest on the Wall" (1922)
Barks and Purrs
Contesto: Toby-Dog: It seems to me that of the two of us it's you they make the most of, and yet you do all the grumbling.
Kiki-The-Demure: A dog's logic, that! The more one gives the more I demand.
Toby-Dog: That's wrong. It's indiscreet.
Kiki-The-Demure: Not at all. I have a right to everything.
Toby-Dog: To everything? And I?
Kiki-The-Demure: I don't imagine you lack anything, do you?
Toby-Dog: Ah, I don't know. Sometimes in my very happiest moments, I feel like crying. My eyes grow dim, my heart seems to choke me. I would like to be sure, in such times of anguish, that everybody loves me; that there is nowhere in the world a sad dog behind a closed door, that no evil will ever come...
Kiki-The-Demure: And then what dreadful thing happens?
Toby-Dog: You know very well! Inevitably, at that moment She appears, carrying a bottle with horrible yellow stuff floating in it — Castor Oil!
Freedom (1908)
Origine: Oeuvres complètes en seize volumes
“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”
Chance Acquaintances (1952)
Origine: Chance Acquaintances and Julie de Carneilhan
“What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!”
“Sido and I”, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps