Coup de Grâce Quotes

“One is always punished out of season.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grâce

“Nothing moves me more than courage: so total a sacrifice deserved complete trust from me. But she never believed that I trusted her, since she did not suspect how much I distrusted others. In spite of appearances to the contrary, I do not regret having yielded to Sophie as much as it lay in my nature to do; at the first glance I had caught sight of something in her incorruptible, with which one could make a compact as sure, and as dangerous, as with an element itself. Fire may be trusted, provided one knows that its law is to burn, or die.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grâce

“Friendship affords total certitude above all and that is what distinguishes it from love. It means respect as well and total acceptance of another being.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grâce

“Era demasiado jovem para ter ideia que de que a existência não é feita de arrebatamentos súbitos e de obstinada constância, mas de compromissos e de esquecimentos.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grâce

“ A amizade é, acima de tudo, certeza - é isso o que a distingue do amor.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grâce

“J'éteignis la lampe, comme on la rallume après avoir fait l'amour.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grâce

“Le danger fait sortir le pire de l'âme humaine, et le meilleur aussi.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grâce

“J'ai vécu durant ces quelques semaines aussi libre d'inquiétudes que si je devais mourir le lendemain, ou vivre toujours.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grâce

“La crudeltà è un lusso da oziosi, come le droghe e le camicie di seta.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grâce

“Il racconto è scritto in prima persona e messo in bocca al personaggio principale, procedimento per il quale io ho una certa predilezione perché elimina dal libro il punto di vista dell'autore, o almeno i suoi commenti, e perché permette di mostrare un essere umano che fronteggia la sua stessa vita e si sforza più o meno onestamente di spiegarla e innanzitutto di ricordarsela.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grâce