A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her. — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
“Anyone I love takes away part of my freedom, but in that case it is I who wished it; and there is so much pleasure in loving that one gladly sacrifices something for its sake. Any one who loves me takes away all my freedom. Anyone who admires me (as a writer) threatens to take it away from me. I… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share
A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word. — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
“Her beauty belonged to all the world but her flaws belonged to him alone.” — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
