153 quotes found
“Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.”
“If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.”
“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”
“I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.”
“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.”
“The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in newspapers no less virtuous, made a grimace of disgust as they picked it up with the tongs to throw i...”
“Endless love and voluptuous appetite pervaded this stifling nave in which settled the ardent sap of the tropics. Rene was wrapped in the powerful bridals of the earth that gave birth to these dark ...”
“The shrub that half concealed her was a malignant plant, a Madagascan tanghin tree with wide, box-like leaves with whitish stems, whose smallest veins distilled a venomous fluid. At a moment when L...”
“There Albine lay, panting, exhausted by love, her hands clutched closer and closer to her heart, breathing her last. She parted her lips, seeking the kiss which should obliterate her, and then the ...”
“And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself out a bit... And you get carried away, you suffer so much from the things tha...”
“She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?”
“Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He was bored with leisure, with work, with hi...”
“lodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she was so thin-blooded that good country air seemed only to make her more sickly.”
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'”
“He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.”
“The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, s...”
“In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.”
“Hlne, her eyes once more raised and remote, was deep in a dream. She was Lady Rowena, she was in love, with the deep peaceful passion of a noble soul. This spring morning, the loveliness of the gre...”
“Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?”
