Arsene Houssaye Quotes

• Always have old memories, and young hopes.

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  Life, Memories, Young

  "Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Gathered from the Roses, Clover Blossoms, Geraniums, Violets, Morning-glories, and Pansies of Literature". 1915.

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• There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

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  Self, Two, World

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• Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

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  Happiness, Feet, Castles

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• Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.

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  Sometimes

  "When Good Fellows Get Together". Book by James O'Donnell Bennett, p. 156, 1908.

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• The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.

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  Heart, Youth, Young

  Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.89

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• The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

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  Lost, Graves, Distress

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• Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

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  Spring, Heart, Winter

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• The Parisienne is not in fashion, she is fashion.

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  Fashion

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• Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

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  Income

  "When Good Fellows Get Together". Book by James O'Donnell Bennett, p. 147, 1908.

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• Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.

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  Women, Safety, Storm

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• Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

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  Hope, World, Tempest

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• Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?

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  Views, Imagination, Romance

  Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.77

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• Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

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  Genius, Providence, Manifestation

  Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.107

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• Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

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  Women, Fancy, Ruins

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