Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
اگر آدم فقط پنج شش کتاب را به خوبی می شناخت، چه محقق برجسته ای می شد
This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should...
Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Léon was het uitzichtloos verliefd zijn meer dan beu; daarbij meldde zich de neerslachtigheid die wordt veroorzaakt door de sleur van een eentonig bestaan dat geen doel of leidraad heeft, dat niet wor...
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.
How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?
His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
As if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since hu...
Il s’était tant de fois entendu dire ces choses, qu’elles n’avaient pour lui rien d’original. Emma ressemblait à toutes les maîtresses ; et le charme de la nouveauté, peu à peu tombant comme un vêteme...
Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep o...
I'm no more modern than ancient, no more French than Chinese, and the idea of a native country, that is to say, the imperative to live on one bit of ground marked red or blue on the map and to hate th...
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Ti se nadaš da čuješ nešto više o Viktoru Igou. Šta mogu da ti o njemu kažem ? To je čovek kao i svaki drugi, sa dosta ružnim licem i dosta prostom spoljašnjošću. Ima izvaredne zube i veličanstveno če...
In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means...