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- Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
- Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and…
- What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our…
- Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but…
- Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
- But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off…
- One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
- One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes…
- The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
- We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and…
- Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing to…
- How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
- [T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure…
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