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After reading binge prompted by convalescence, "As if to balance the ledger, letters poured out at an equally prodigious pace.
— Philip Zaleski
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
When the destiny of a nation is in a woman's bedroom, the best place for the historian is in the antechamber. - CHARLES-AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE
— Eleanor Herman
What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Don't be afraid of hard work.
— Marian Wright Edelman
There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
He had enough experience in the business of prayer to recognize an answer when it showed up, though, however unwelcome.
— Diana Gabaldon
Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ * ]
— Mark Z. Danielewski
With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve