The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sad...e. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the average (and you will look long and hard before finding anyone so aptly described) CB aficionado his radio is his hobby. A ...hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, ...and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it ...only from having bought it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wri...ng from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I belie...ved everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to creat...e where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »