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“With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#Wise Quotes
#Artist Quotes
#Adults Quotes
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“Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#Men Quotes
#Fame Quotes
#Prostitution Quotes
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“Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Source : "Poésies completes de Sainte-Beuve" by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Paris: Charpentier, p. 16 ("Vie de Joseph Delorme"), 1840.
#Long Quotes
#Despair Quotes
#Goes On Quotes
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“If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Source : Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1875). “English Portraits”, p.83, London : Daldy, Isbister
#Beautiful Quotes
#Truth Quotes
#Leaving Quotes
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“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.”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#Reading Quotes
#People Quotes
#Rooms Quotes
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“The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#Critics Quotes
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“The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#Teacher Quotes
#Three Quotes
#Wonderful Quotes
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“A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Source : "Society for Pure English, Tract 05: The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems" by Society for Pure English, June 5, 2004.
#Philosophical Quotes
#Illumination Quotes
#Sharpness Quotes
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“Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Source : Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1875). “English Portraits”, p.91, London : Daldy, Isbister
#Enemy Quotes
#Endeavour Quotes
#Honour Quotes
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“In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#Men Quotes
#Poetry Quotes
#He Man Quotes
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“I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#Honesty Quotes
#Moments Quotes
#Collapse Quotes
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“Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#Opposites Quotes
#Giving Quotes
#Enjoy Life Quotes
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“There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#People Quotes
#Clock Quotes
#Certain Quotes
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“If you want to succeed, limit yourself.”
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#Want Quotes
#Limits Quotes
#Succeed Quotes
