46 quotes found
Writer · French · 1858–1915
French writer (1858–1915)
“Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.”
“The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.”
“Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.”
“As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; th...”
“It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference of two or three minutes in their reading of the time. One has a tendency to put ...”
“The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.”
“Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which car...”
“To acquire the full consciousness of self is to know oneself so different from others that no longer feels allied with men except by purely animal contacts: nevertheless, among souls of this degree...”
“He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the...”
“How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.”
“Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all? Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as the death of our bodies? This beyond is decidedly uncertain, quite vague and mob...”
“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”
“All poetry is an affair of the body, that is, to be real, it must affect the body.”
“We write as we feel, as we think, with our entire body.”
“Literary style is the product of the toal phyisology.”
“Grace from on high so opportunely purifies the petty human passions.”
“Innocence has its instincts, its needs, its physiological dues.”
“Time does not live for them, they (girls) live in the absolute. A curious creature. But then all women are curious creatures, girls above all.”
“Women are complex, of course not more so than men, but in a different way that men cannot understand.”
“Women don't understand themselves and what is more they do not care about understanding.”
