He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books are cold but safe friends. In
He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would say, Be careful how you turn to the dead. Don't think of the rotting. Hold your gaze and...
He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world al...
He felt that to increase his knowledge was to strengthen his hatred. Under certain circumstances, instruction and enlightenment may serve as rallying points for evil.
I tell you, monsieur, it’s the end of the world. The students’ behaviour has never been so outrageous. It’s all these damnable modern inventions that are the ruin of everything.
If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive plant; if you are a man, be love.
If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.
Ignominy thirsts for respect.
Il dort. Quoique le sort fut pour lui bien étrange,Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n’eut plus son ange.La choise simplement d’elle-même arriva.Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s’en va.He is asleep....
Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange,Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange.La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva,Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le four s'en va.
In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the misery of the ch...
In short, between men and women you want...Equality.Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures.I said equality. I didn't say identity.
In that pallid and sullen shadow in which he crawled, whenever he turned his head and endeavoured to raise his eyes, he saw, with mingled rage and terror, forming, massing, and mounting up out of sigh...
In the neighborhood she was called the Lark. People like figurative names and were happy to give a nickname to this child, no larger than a bird, trembling, frightened, and shivering, first to wake ev...
In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.
In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come t...
It behooved wise people to play the part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to fasten the doors well.
It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
It is an error to imagine that fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything whatever.
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