Henry Becque quotes

“The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.”
-- Henry Becque

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“Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.”
-- Henry Becque

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“Men know so little about us women. We've a weakness, it is true, for those who charm us, but we always come back to those who love us.”
-- Henry Becque

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“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”

“Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.”

“Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.”

“Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?”

“Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.”

“I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.”

“We must use what we have to invent what we desire.”

Source : Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

“If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.”

“I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.”

“It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.”