Alphonse Daudet quotes
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“Hatred - The anger of the weak.”
-- Alphonse DaudetSource : Alphonse Daudet, George Burnham Ives, Jane Minot Sedgwick, Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Olive Edward Palmer (1900). “The Works of Alphonse Daudet”
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“Music is another planet.”
-- Alphonse DaudetSource : Alphonse Daudet, Ernest Daudet, Léon Daudet (1900). “The Works of Alphonse Daudet”
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“Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.”
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“There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.”
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“Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.”
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“My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.”
-- Alphonse DaudetSource : Alphonse Daudet (2018). “In the Land of Pain”, p.17, Random House
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“Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.”
-- Alphonse DaudetSource : "The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002.
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“The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation...”
-- Alphonse DaudetSource : "The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002.
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“Hatred doesn't just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred”
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“Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.”
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