Paul Bourget Short Quotes

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Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

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There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

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There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

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La plus cruelle vengeance d'une femme est quelquefois de nous rester fidèle.

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At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

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We had better live as we think, otherwise sooner or later we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.

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Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.

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I have retired to Nemours to work upon a novel called The Age for Love, and it is on this subject that I wished to consult you, my dear master.

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There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

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Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy for those who have triumphed in the melancholy struggle for literary supremacy.

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"There is an intelligent man, who never questions his ideas," said Dorsenne to himself, when the Marquis had left him. "He is like the Socialists. What vigor of mind in that old wornout machine!"

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Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of today.

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