Arsene Houssaye quotes
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“Always have old memories, and young hopes.”
-- Arsene HoussayeSource : "Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Gathered from the Roses, Clover Blossoms, Geraniums, Violets, Morning-glories, and Pansies of Literature". 1915.
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“There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.”
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“The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.”
-- Arsene HoussayeSource : Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.89
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“Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.”
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“The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.”
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“Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?”
-- Arsene HoussayeSource : Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.77
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“Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.”
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“Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?”
-- Arsene HoussayeSource : Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.107
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“Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.”
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“Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.”
-- Arsene HoussayeSource : "When Good Fellows Get Together". Book by James O'Donnell Bennett, p. 156, 1908.
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“Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.”
-- Arsene HoussayeSource : "When Good Fellows Get Together". Book by James O'Donnell Bennett, p. 147, 1908.
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“The Parisienne is not in fashion, she is fashion.”
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“Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.”
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“Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.”
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