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Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
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.
With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French
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.
If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are.
