23 quotes
French writer (1850-1893)
“I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.”
"The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity."
on Art
"Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist."
on Life
"...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra."
"Nature loves death: she will not punish it."
on Nature
"It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both."
on Love
"Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched."
on Philosophy
"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."]"
"After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think."
on Perception
"Military men are the scourges of the world."
on Truth
"Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful."
"I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing"
"In fact living is dying."
on Death
"The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death."
"The only certainty is death."
"What you love too violently finishes by killing you."
"It is the encounters with people that make life worth living."
on Relationships
"Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness."
"Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governm"
on Revolution
"Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw"
on War
"Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare."
on Writing
