Henry de Montherlant quotes
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“Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.”
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“I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness”
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“We like someone because. We love someone although.”
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“Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.”
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“It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.”
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“It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.”
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“... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find an excuse for loving it. Everything is a matter of points of view, and misfortune is often only the sign of a false interpretation of life.”
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“Great ideas are not charitable.”
-- Henry de MontherlantSource : Henry de Montherlant (1951). “The Master of Santiago: And Four Other Plays”, New York : A. A. Knopf
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“Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.”
-- Henry de MontherlantSource : Henry de Montherlant (1960). “Selected Essays”, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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“One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.”
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“Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.”
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“We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.”
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“There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.”
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“It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.”
-- Henry de MontherlantSource : Henry de Montherlant (1960). “Selected Essays”, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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