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A quoi bon discuter une proposition semblable, quand la force peut détruire les meilleurs arguments.
Jules Verne
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Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l’archer:;; Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées, Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher.

Charles Baudelaire

— The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds
Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;
But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,
He cannot walk, his wings are in the way."L’Albatros" [The Albatross] (translated by James McGowan, Oxford University Press, 1993) [7]

Tags: prince, nues, hante, rit, sol, milieu, hues, ailes, marcher

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Le véritable amour est éternel, infini, toujours semblable à lui-même; il est égal et pur, sans démonstrations violentes; il se voit en cheveux blancs, toujours jeune de cœur.

honoré de balzac

— True love is eternal, infinite, always like unto itself; it is equable, pure, without violent demonstration; white hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.Le lys dans la vallée (1836), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, part II: First Love

Tags: vritable, amour, ternel, infini, toujours, luimme, gal, pur, voit

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Il y a deux musiques: une petite, mesquine, de second ordre, partout semblable à elle-même, qui repose sur une centaine de phrases que chaque musicien s'approprie, et qui constitue un bavardage plus ou moins agréable avec lequel vivent la plupart des compositeurs.

honoré de balzac

— Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.Massimilla Doni (1839), translated by Clara Bell and James Waring

Tags: deux, petite, mesquine, second, ordre, partout, ellemme, repose, phrases

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For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.

thomas wyatt

— Thomas Wyatt, The Re-cured Lover.

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Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère!

Charles Baudelaire

— Hypocrite reader — my likeness — my brother!"Au Lecteur" [To the Reader] [6]

Tags: Hypocrite, lecteur, mon, frre

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