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Daily quotes from my favorite books
"La véritable humilité, elle est chez nous, chez les agnostiques. Agnostique : celui qui avoue qu’il ne sait pas."
—Lucien Rebatet
—Lucien Rebatet
April 13, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"La véritable humilité, elle est chez nous, chez les agnostiques. Agnostique : celui qui avoue qu’il ne sait pas."
—Lucien Rebatet
—Lucien Rebatet
"La démocratie, c’est la barbarie, au sens romain du mot."
―Lucien Rebatet
―Lucien Rebatet
April 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
"La démocratie, c’est la barbarie, au sens romain du mot."
―Lucien Rebatet
―Lucien Rebatet
"On grimpe, on vole, on plane. Et au moment où on va devenir anges, un grand coup de pied nous rappelle que nous avons un cul !"
―Lucien Rebatet
―Lucien Rebatet
April 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"On grimpe, on vole, on plane. Et au moment où on va devenir anges, un grand coup de pied nous rappelle que nous avons un cul !"
―Lucien Rebatet
―Lucien Rebatet
"Le pire asservissement est celui de la plume. La nôtre restera un outil noble. Notre idéal est l’œuvre rare : to the happy few."
―Lucien Rebatet
―Lucien Rebatet
April 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"Le pire asservissement est celui de la plume. La nôtre restera un outil noble. Notre idéal est l’œuvre rare : to the happy few."
―Lucien Rebatet
―Lucien Rebatet
"My life: a tragedy booed off stage by the gods, never getting beyond the first act."
—Fernando Pessoa
—Fernando Pessoa
December 5, 2024 at 3:40 PM
"My life: a tragedy booed off stage by the gods, never getting beyond the first act."
—Fernando Pessoa
—Fernando Pessoa
"Though waters stray,
The bread we cast returns in fraughts one day. "
—Henry Vaughan
The bread we cast returns in fraughts one day. "
—Henry Vaughan
December 5, 2024 at 3:28 PM
"Though waters stray,
The bread we cast returns in fraughts one day. "
—Henry Vaughan
The bread we cast returns in fraughts one day. "
—Henry Vaughan
"There's nothing but your worth, which being true,
Is knowne to any other, not to you.
And you can never know it; To admit
No knowledge of your worth, is some of it."
—John Donne
Is knowne to any other, not to you.
And you can never know it; To admit
No knowledge of your worth, is some of it."
—John Donne
December 1, 2024 at 10:23 PM
"There's nothing but your worth, which being true,
Is knowne to any other, not to you.
And you can never know it; To admit
No knowledge of your worth, is some of it."
—John Donne
Is knowne to any other, not to you.
And you can never know it; To admit
No knowledge of your worth, is some of it."
—John Donne
"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life."
—Herman Melville
—Herman Melville
December 1, 2024 at 8:59 AM
"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life."
—Herman Melville
—Herman Melville
"What I get a kick out of is these serious writers who write a book where they say money gives a false significance to art, and then they raise hell when their book doesn’t make any money."
—William Gaddis
—William Gaddis
December 1, 2024 at 8:46 AM
"What I get a kick out of is these serious writers who write a book where they say money gives a false significance to art, and then they raise hell when their book doesn’t make any money."
—William Gaddis
—William Gaddis
"Men often arrive at very unpleasant results by pursuing the loftiest aims."
—Wyndham Lewis
—Wyndham Lewis
December 1, 2024 at 8:39 AM
"Men often arrive at very unpleasant results by pursuing the loftiest aims."
—Wyndham Lewis
—Wyndham Lewis
"You, forsooth, a flower? Nay, my love, a jewel—
Jewel at no mercy of a moment in your prime !
Time may fray the flower-face : kind be time or cruel,
Jewel, from each facet, flash your laugh at time !"
—Robert Browning
Jewel at no mercy of a moment in your prime !
Time may fray the flower-face : kind be time or cruel,
Jewel, from each facet, flash your laugh at time !"
—Robert Browning
December 1, 2024 at 8:35 AM
"You, forsooth, a flower? Nay, my love, a jewel—
Jewel at no mercy of a moment in your prime !
Time may fray the flower-face : kind be time or cruel,
Jewel, from each facet, flash your laugh at time !"
—Robert Browning
Jewel at no mercy of a moment in your prime !
Time may fray the flower-face : kind be time or cruel,
Jewel, from each facet, flash your laugh at time !"
—Robert Browning
"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer
just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."
—Dag Hammarskjöld
just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."
—Dag Hammarskjöld
November 30, 2024 at 7:47 PM
"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer
just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."
—Dag Hammarskjöld
just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."
—Dag Hammarskjöld
"I laugh at all the highly learned apes
Puffed up as haughty arbiters of wit,
And at the coward rogues who snarl a bit
And sling the poison darts no man escapes."
—Heinrich Heine
Puffed up as haughty arbiters of wit,
And at the coward rogues who snarl a bit
And sling the poison darts no man escapes."
—Heinrich Heine
November 18, 2024 at 7:24 AM
"I laugh at all the highly learned apes
Puffed up as haughty arbiters of wit,
And at the coward rogues who snarl a bit
And sling the poison darts no man escapes."
—Heinrich Heine
Puffed up as haughty arbiters of wit,
And at the coward rogues who snarl a bit
And sling the poison darts no man escapes."
—Heinrich Heine
"Hope that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?"
—W.B. Yeats
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?"
—W.B. Yeats
November 16, 2024 at 11:52 PM
"Hope that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?"
—W.B. Yeats
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?"
—W.B. Yeats
"Que m’importe que tu sois sage ?
Sois belle ! et sois triste ! Les pleurs
Ajoutent un charme au visage,
Comme le fleuve au paysage;
L’orage rajeunit les fleurs."
—Charles Baudelaire
Sois belle ! et sois triste ! Les pleurs
Ajoutent un charme au visage,
Comme le fleuve au paysage;
L’orage rajeunit les fleurs."
—Charles Baudelaire
November 16, 2024 at 11:50 PM
"Que m’importe que tu sois sage ?
Sois belle ! et sois triste ! Les pleurs
Ajoutent un charme au visage,
Comme le fleuve au paysage;
L’orage rajeunit les fleurs."
—Charles Baudelaire
Sois belle ! et sois triste ! Les pleurs
Ajoutent un charme au visage,
Comme le fleuve au paysage;
L’orage rajeunit les fleurs."
—Charles Baudelaire
"There is no salvation through madness, because no man with a premonition of madness can overcome his fear of possible moments of lucidity. One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it."
—Emil Cioran
—Emil Cioran
November 16, 2024 at 11:48 PM
"There is no salvation through madness, because no man with a premonition of madness can overcome his fear of possible moments of lucidity. One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it."
—Emil Cioran
—Emil Cioran
"L’homme est un être si essentiellement, si nécessairement
moral, que, lorsqu’il nie toute morale, cette négation même
est déjà le noyau d’une morale nouvelle."
—Maurice Maeterlinck
moral, que, lorsqu’il nie toute morale, cette négation même
est déjà le noyau d’une morale nouvelle."
—Maurice Maeterlinck
November 16, 2024 at 11:45 PM
"L’homme est un être si essentiellement, si nécessairement
moral, que, lorsqu’il nie toute morale, cette négation même
est déjà le noyau d’une morale nouvelle."
—Maurice Maeterlinck
moral, que, lorsqu’il nie toute morale, cette négation même
est déjà le noyau d’une morale nouvelle."
—Maurice Maeterlinck