Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
“Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy for those who… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
“Il faut vivre comme on pense, sans quoi l'on finira par penser comme on a vécu.” — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
