Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Conditions Copy Share Image
What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end? — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Ends Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for… — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Books Copy Share Image
One is always of his age and especially he who least appears so. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Age Copy Share Image
“Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are.” — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Identity Copy Share Image
The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three… — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Approach Copy Share Image
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Endeavour Copy Share Image
If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters… — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Beautiful Copy Share Image
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Died Copy Share Image
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at… — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Despair Copy Share Image
A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Illumination Copy Share Image
The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle . — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Critics Copy Share Image
There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Certain Copy Share Image
Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Christianity Copy Share Image
With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Adults Copy Share Image
I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Collapse Copy Share Image
