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Zdroj: [Exley, Helen, Pro klid v duši 365 : Citáty na každý den, Zuzana Pavlová, Slovart, Praha, 2018, 368, 978-80-7529-518-7, 260]
„Ženská cudnost se skládá, stejně jako cibule, z celé řady vrstev.“
Originál: (en) A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Zdroj: [Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 2004, Passages from the English Note Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kessinger Publishing, 75, angličtina]
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Citáty anglicky
“I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.”
Letter to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (4 June 1837)
“She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XV: Hester and Pearl
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter
1836
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Blithedale Romance
Zdroj: The Blithedale Romance
“Do anything, save to lie down and die!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha Rappaccini's Daughter
Zdroj: Rappaccini's Daughter
“… if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom…”
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter
“Shall we never never get rid of this Past?… It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The House of the Seven Gables
Zdroj: The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter
"The Old Manse": The Author Makes the Reader Acquainted with His Abode http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/tom.html from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIV: Conclusion
Kontext: Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: — "Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!"
“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The House of the Seven Gables
Zdroj: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XI : The Arched Window
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter II: The Market-Place
“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter
“The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart… converted it into a tomb.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIV: Conclusion
Kontext: It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.
“She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.”
"The Birthmark" from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha Young Goodman Brown
Zdroj: "Young Goodman Brown"
Kontext: "Lo, there ye stand, my children," said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad with its despairing awfulness, as if his once angelic nature could yet mourn for our miserable race. "Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race."
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter
“All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter
Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The House of the Seven Gables
Zdroj: The House of the Seven Gables
“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”
1838
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
