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“With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.”
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Wise #Artist #Adults
“Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.”
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Men #Fame #Prostitution
“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

#Long #Despair #Goes On
“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.”
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Beautiful #Truth #Leaving
“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.”
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Reading #People #Rooms
“The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .”
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Critics
“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.”
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Teacher #Three #Wonderful
“A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French”
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Philosophical #Illumination #Sharpness
“Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.”
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Enemy #Endeavour #Honour
“In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.”
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Men #Poetry #He Man
“I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.”
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Honesty #Moments #Collapse
“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

#Opposites #Giving #Enjoy Life
“There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.”
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#People #Clock #Certain
“If you want to succeed, limit yourself.”
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Want #Limits #Succeed

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