Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800
By: François-René de Chateaubriand
3.96
Format: 571 pages, Kindle Edition
Written over the course of four decades, Francois-ReneÅL de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has …
Want to Read $ 12.99"It is a long way from these strict parents to the child-spoilers of today."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800
"Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800
"There are only two true things: intelligent religion and youthful love, which is to say the future and the present. The rest is not worth the trouble"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800
"Life is spent hovering round our tomb. Our various sicknesses are but the winds which carry us more or less near to the haven. … Death is our friend, nevertheless we do not recognise it as such, because it presents itself to us under a mask, and that mask inspires us with terror."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800
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