Approach Quote by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

“The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.”

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

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What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?

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“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.”

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One is always of his age and especially he who least appears so.

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“Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are.”

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Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

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If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

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If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as…

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In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

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Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

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A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

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