Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam quotes
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“I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.”
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“Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.”
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“Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?”
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“Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.”
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“My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?”
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“If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well.”
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-AdamSource : "The Future Eve". Book by Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, 1886.
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“Brunettes are full of electricity.”
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“There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.”
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“Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?”
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“I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?”
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
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