Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

“If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They…

— Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love…

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

“Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some…

— Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

“The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie…

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

“Live? Our servants will do that for us..”

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

“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

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