Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense.

Adrienne Monnier's Popular Quotes

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

Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

- Adrienne Monnier

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

- Adrienne Monnier

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

- 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 …

- Adrienne Monnier

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

- Adrienne Monnier

It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.

- 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.

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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