66 quotes found
Author · French · 1864–1910
French author (1864–1910)
“Work thinks, laziness dreams. It has its own very bad way of being good. (December 27, C.E.1887; Vergani, p. 13)”
“How many people wanted to kill themselves and instead limited themselves to tearing up their photographs! (December 29, C.E.1888; Vergani, p. 15)”
“Depicts the ideal of calm with the image of a cat sitting. (January 30, C.E.1889; Vergani, p. 16)”
“The most stupid exaggeration is that of tears. It's as annoying as a faucet that won't close. (March 29, C.E.1889; p. 17)”
“Horror of the bourgeois is a bourgeois attitude. (April 10, 1889; Vergani, p. 18)”
“Do we have a destiny? How boring not to know! How boring it would be if you knew! (January 14, C.E.1889; Vergani, p. 19)”
“The sleep is the square of memories. Help their return. (August 30, C.E.1889; Vergani, p. 21)”
“I love men more or less, depending on the amount of annotations I can get out of them. (November 25, C.E.1889; Vergani, p. 32)”
“You can be poet and have short hair. You can be a poet and pay your rent regularly. You can be a poet and make love to your wife. (January 2, C.E.1890; p. 33)”
“It is necessary to operate through dissociation and not through the association of ideas. An association is almost always trivial. Dissociation, by breaking down, discovers hidden affinities. (Janu...”
“The bourgeois, are the others. (January 28, C.E.1890; Vergani, p. 33)”
“You enter a book like a train, with a few glances behind you, with some hesitation and with the boredom of changing places and ideas. How will the trip go? What will the book be like? (February 15,...”
“Look for the ridiculous in everything, you will find it. [7] (February 17, C.E.1890)”
“The beggar gaze of the actor who in all circumstances, even in the most serious, turns around to make sure that he is looked at and that he has been recognized. (February 20, C.E.1890; Vergani, p. 34)”
“What does it matter what I do? Ask me what I think. (April 12, C.E.1890; Vergani, p. 36)”
“The two Dumas' turned the theory of economics upside down. The father was the prodigal, and the son was the miser. (April 17, C.E.1890; Vergani, p. 36)”
“You are twenty years old from fifteen to thirty years old. (June 28, C.E.1890)”
“On a vingt ans depuis quinze jusqu'à trente ans.”
“Mérimée is perhaps the writer who will last the longest, because he makes less use of images than all the others, this source of the old age of style. Posterity will belong to the dry writers, to t...”
“Cracked plates last longer than intact plates. (September 4, C.E.1890; Vergani, p. 37)”
