“Soft and exquisite,”
— Li Qingzhao, tr. by Jiaosheng Wang, from “A Partridge Sky for the Cassia Flower.” (via violentwavesofemotion)
“But I also think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling, there were more delicate existences and even a certain luxury of the soul. She knew that there were a lot of things she didn’t know how to understand.”
— Clarice Lispector, from The Hour of the Star.
Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus
“Her brown eyes were untranslatable…She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.”
— Clarice Lispector, from “The Servant”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)
♦ Littér. Qui tend, sous des apparences de vérité, à surprendre, à induire en erreur. ⇒ fallacieux, insidieux, spécieux. Raisonnement, discours captieux. « Un argument captieux et difficile à débrouiller » (Taine). — (Personnes) Un raisonneur, un philosophe captieux. ⇒ sophiste
● captieux, captieuse adjectif (latin captiosus, trompeur) Qui vise à tromper par des apparences de raison, de vérité ; fallacieux : Argument captieux.
-Qui tend à tromper, qui séduit par de belles, de fausses apparences. Argument, raisonnements captieux; questions captieuses :
-[En parlant d'une pers.] Qui induit en erreur ou cherche à le faire par de faux raisonnements.
-Captieusement, adv.De façon captieuse, insidieuse. Interroger captieusement (Ac. 1878-1932). Déjà tant de volupté se glissait captieusement sous l'idylle
Synonymes : - artificieux - fallacieux - insidieux - sophistiqué - spécieux - trompeur
Contraires : - correct - fondé - franc - honnête - juste - sincère - vrai
Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Langston Hughes, from Selected Poems; “Quietness,”
“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”
— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms (via philosophybits)
“I bloom within myself, inwardly,”
— Gabriela Mistral, from Selected Prose & Prose Poems; “The Fig,”
Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
— Anne Frank