11 quotes found
“The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe.”
“Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice.”
“We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.”
“When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.”
“Plt au ciel que le lecteur, enhardi et devenu momentanment froce comme ce quil lit, trouve, sans se dsorienter, son chemin abrupt et sauvage, travers les marcages dsols de ces pages sombres et ple...”
“To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense & mightily stupefy the reader's intelligence with renowned doses, so as to paralyze his faculties for...”
“I find myself nursing keen regret at probably not being able to live long enough to explain properly to you what I do not myself pretend to know. But since it has been proved that by an extraordina...”
“One should let one's nails grow for a fortnight. O, how sweet it is to drag brutally from his bed a child with no hair on his upper lip and with wide open eyes, make as if to touch his forehead gen...”
“Oh incomprehensible pederasts, I shall not heap insults upon your great degradation; I shall not be the one to pour scorn on your infundibuliform anus. It is enough that the shameful and almost inc...”
“The sciences have two extremities which meet. The first is the ignorance in which men find themselves at birth. The second is that attained by great souls. They have surveyed whatever man can know,...”
“I was a young, & had deep loves, & my heart would overflow with enthusiasm! And I mingled with the crowd, I mixed with my fellow men, speaking my thought out loud! And they gaped back at me, withou...”
