153 quotes found
“I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.”
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
“The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.”
“Keep well that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.”
“Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.”
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
“When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.”
“Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy - love which creates life?”
“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a...”
“But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.”
“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”
“The thing is, work has simply swamped my whole existence. Slowly but surely it's robbed me of my mother, my wife, and everything that meant anything to me. It's like a germ planted in the skull tha...”
“Haven't I told you scores of times, that you're always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top, but in getting there, in the enjoyment you get out of scaling the height...”
“He knew that, from now on, every day would be alike, that they would all bring the same sufferings. And he saw the weeks, the months, the years that awaited him, gloomy and implacable, coming one a...”
“But his doubts were again coming back to him; when you needed a miracle to gain belief, it means that you are incapable of believing. There is no need for the Almighty to prove His existence.”
“The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.”
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
“... Have you ever reflected that posterity may not be the faultless dispenser of justice that we dream of? One consoles oneself for being insulted and denied, by reyling on the equity of the centur...”
“For a few moments, raising his arms desperately, the Reverend Mouret implored Heaven. His shoulder-blades cracked, with such fantastic force did he pray. But soon enough his arms fell to his sides,...”
“They again kissed each other and fell asleep. The patch of light on the ceiling now seemed to be assuming the shape of a terrified eye, that stared wildly and fixedly upon the pale, slumbering coup...”
“Her anger was rekindled.'You see, I keep it to myself, but, oh! it's more than I can stand. Don't say anything, sir; don't say anything , or I'll explode!'He said nothing, and she exploded all the ...”
“The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.”
“Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother's pronouncements. She had long since convinced them of the absolute inferiority of men, whose sole function ...”
