George MacDonald Frasi e Citazioni
“Il principio primo dell'inferno è: «Io sono mio.»”
Origine: Citato in C.S. Lewis, Sorpreso dalla gioia: i primi anni della mia vita, traduzione di Franco Marano, TEA, Milano, 1994, p. 155. ISBN 88-7819-386-0
George MacDonald: Frasi in inglese
“To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.”
Mary Marston (1881), Chapter V
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
From ‘’Justice’’ in Unspoken Sermons Series III (1889)
“Suppose my child ask me what the fairytale means, what am I to say?”
If you do not know what it means, what is easier than to say so? If you do see a meaning in it, there it is for you to give him. A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the other hand, is so far from being a work of art that it needs THIS IS A HORSE written under it, what can it matter that neither you nor your child should know what it means? It is there not so much to convey a meaning as to wake a meaning. If it do not even wake an interest, throw it aside. A meaning may be there, but it is not for you. If, again, you do not know a horse when you see it, the name written under it will not serve you much.
The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody; for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.
At the Back of the North Wind (1871)
“Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality?”
not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier?
Phantastes (1858)
