Preface
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Contesto: I believe this thought, of the possibility of death — if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
Lewis Carroll: Frasi in inglese (pagina 3)
Lewis Carroll era scrittore, matematico e fotografo britannico. Frasi in inglese.Origine: Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Chapter 25 : Looking Eastward
“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.”
Preface
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Contesto: I believe this thought, of the possibility of death — if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“And what is the use of a book, without pictures or conversation?”
Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“It is better to be feared than loved.”
Origine: Alice in Wonderland
“Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”
Variante: Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.”
Origine: Alice in Wonderland
Solitude (1853), conclusion
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
Contesto: p>Ye golden hours of Life's young spring,
Of innocence, of love and truth!
Bright, beyond all imagining,
Thou fairy-dream of youth!I'd give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life's decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer-day.</p
“Why is a raven like a writing desk?”
Origine: Alice in Wonderland
“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”
Variante: She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Origine: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass