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.
What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end? - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease. - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite. - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle . - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .
A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French. - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.
I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse. - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour. - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
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