Germaine de Staël citáty
Germaine de Staël
Datum narození: 22. duben 1766
Datum úmrtí: 14. červenec 1817
Další jména: Anna Louise Germaine De Stael-Holstein, Anne-Louise-Germaine Staël, Anna Louise Germaine De Stael-Holsteinov, Анна-Луиза Жермена де Сталь
Germaine de Staël, obvykle nazývaná Madame de Staël byla francouzsko-švýcarská spisovatelka.
Citáty Germaine de Staël
„Sláva může být pro ženu jen zábleskem štěstí v jejím smutku.“
Zdroj: [Delorme, Philippe, 2009, Zavraždění králové, Levné knihy, 155, 978-80-7309-671-7]
„The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The Influence of Literature upon Society (De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les istitutions sociales, 1800) , Pt. 2, ch. 4
Kontext: The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
„Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The Influence of Literature upon Society (De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les istitutions sociales, 1800) , Pt. 2, ch. 4
Kontext: The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
„When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, kniha Corinne
Bk. 6, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
„It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, kniha Delphine
Delphine (1802), Preface
„A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, kniha Corinne
Bk. 10, ch. 5
Corinne (1807)
„Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, kniha Corinne
Bk. 8, ch. 2, as translated by Isabel Hill (1833)
Variant translation: It is certainly through love that eternity can be understood; it confuses all thoughts about time; it destroys the ideas of beginning and end; one thinks one has always been in love with the person one loves, so difficult is it to conceive that one could live without him.
As translated by Sylvia Raphael (1998)
Corinne (1807)
„Be happy, but be so by piety.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, kniha Corinne
Bk. 20, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
„The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Pt. 4, ch. 10
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)
