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… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
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
