I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion… - Adrienne Monnier
For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion…
- Adrienne Monnier
The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering. - Adrienne Monnier
The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.
Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself. - Adrienne Monnier
Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing. - Adrienne Monnier
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.
Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it … - Adrienne Monnier
Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it …
Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. - Adrienne Monnier
Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.
It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship. - Adrienne Monnier
It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.
German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness. - Adrienne Monnier
German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon th… - Adrienne Monnier
I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon th…
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