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Ich liebe die Dunkelheit, und die Schatten, wo ich allein mit meinen Gedanken sein kann.
I love the darkness, and the shadows, where I can be alone with my thoughts.– Klaus Kinski as The Count in W. Herzog’s Nosferatu (1979)

Filed Under: Films/Television Tagged With: featured, horror

Non! non! quatre fois non! je ne suis pas ta fille!
No! No! Four times no! I am not your daughter!– Eugene Ionesco, la Cantatrice chauve (1950)

Filed Under: Literature Tagged With: featured, French, surrealism

Why didn’t they tell us the T R U T H ? He was O U R prisoner!

Pourquoi ne nous avoir pas dit la V É R I T É ? C’était notre prisonnier  À  N O U S !

– Donald Pleasence as Father Loomis in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness (1987)Q

Filed Under: Films/Television, Religion Tagged With: featured, horror

Times have changed, Doris. Either you go along, or else you’re out of it.

Les temps ont changé, Doris. Tu t’y adaptes, ou on te laisse de côté.

– Kim McAfee (Ann–Margret) in Bye–bye, Birdie (1963)

Filed Under: Films/Television Tagged With: featured, life

Shut up, Bobby Lee. It’s no real pleasure in life.

Tais-toi, Bobby Lee. Il n’y a aucun vrai plaisir dans la vie.

– The Misfit, in Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Filed Under: Literature Tagged With: featured, life

Close the door, Joshua, and let death pass!!
Ferme la porte, Josué. Que la Mort aille son chemin!– Moses (Charlton Heston) in The Ten Commandments (1956)

Filed Under: Films/Television Tagged With: French, silly

God made you. And God doesn’t make junk!

C’est le Bon Dieu qui t’a fait. Et le Bon Dieu ne fait pas des choses nulles!
– Tammy Faye Bakker Messner († July 27, 2007)

Filed Under: Religion Tagged With: featured

M. ORGON.  Mon cher Monsieur, je vous demande mille pardons de vous avoir fait attendre; mais ce n’est que de cet instant que j’apprends que vous êtes ici.
ARLEQUIN. Monsieur, mille pardons! c’est beaucoup trop, il n’en faut qu’un, quand on n’a fait qu’une faute; au surplus, tous mes pardons sont à votre service.

M. Orgon. My Dear Sir, a thousand pardons for my having made you wait, but it is only just now that I learned you were here.
Arlequin. Sir, a thousand pardons is far too many; one per fault is sufficient! And in any case all my pardons are at your service.

–Marivaux, Le Jeu de l’amour et du hasard

Filed Under: Literature Tagged With: French, funny, Pierre de Marivaux

I think I never spent so sad an hour,
Dear Friend, as that one at the Church tonight!

Je crois n’avoir jamais passé d’heure si triste
Que celle de ce soir dans la maison de Dieu!

– Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Nothing But Stones”

Filed Under: Literature Tagged With: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, featured, life

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