Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
Saintliness is also a temptation.
Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.
Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.
Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e" tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.
Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.
One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.
Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.
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