Lorenzaccio Quotes
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Lorenzaccio Quotes
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“You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep”
― Lorenzaccio
― Lorenzaccio
“There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings”
― Lorenzaccio
― Lorenzaccio
“Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!”
― Lorenzaccio
― Lorenzaccio
“Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?”
― Lorenzaccio
― Lorenzaccio
“The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer”
― Lorenzaccio
― Lorenzaccio
“Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest”
― Lorenzaccio
― Lorenzaccio
“L'humanité souleva sa robe et me montra, comme à un adepte digne d'elle, sa monstrueuse nudité.”
― Lorenzaccio
― Lorenzaccio
“Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière.
Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light.
(III, 3)”
― Lorenzaccio
Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light.
(III, 3)”
― Lorenzaccio
“Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière. (III, 3)
Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light.”
― Lorenzaccio
Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light.”
― Lorenzaccio
“Dépêche-toi, soleil, si tu es curieux des nouvelles que cette nuit te dira demain”
― Lorenzaccio
― Lorenzaccio
“Je suis rongé d'une tristesse auprès de laquelle la nuit la plus sombre est une lumière éblouissante”
― Lorenzaccio
― Lorenzaccio