Andre Chenier quotes

“It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!”
-- Andre Chenier

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“Oh death, you can wait; keep your distance.”
-- Andre Chenier

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“What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.”
-- Andre Chenier

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“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”

“I have liked many but loved very few. Yet no-one has been as sweet as you. I'd stand and wait in the world's longest queue. Just for the pleasure of a moment with you.”

“I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”

“O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.79

“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2009). “Very Valentine”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

“Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.”

“Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.”

“People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.”

“I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.”