There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed. — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
“If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be, in a word, sounds other than what they actually were, and from what their phonographic labels pretended they were – since it's in ourselves that the silence exists. It was while the sounds were still mysterious… — Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam Copy Share
If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
“Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some metal, the fires. The furnaces roar, the hammers crash; and the metalworkers who forge ingots, weapons, tools, and so on are completely ignorant of the real uses to which their products will be put. The workers can only… — Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam Copy Share
“The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie in the… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
“Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life.” — Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything? — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
