Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes
1804–1869 France
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (December 23 1804 – October 13 1869) was a French literary critic, poet and novelist.
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To lend freshness to things known, to spread knowledge of things new; an excellent program for a critic.
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
Portraits littéraires (1862)
Let us beware of irony when making judgements. Of all the dispositions of the mind, irony is the least intelligent.
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
Vie de Joseph Delorme (1829)
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
Most often we are judging not others, but rather our own faculties in others.
Silence is the sovereign contempt.
A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French
On “the phenomenon of grace”. “For the soul arrives therebye at a certain fixed and invincible state, a state which is genuinely heroic, and from out of which the greatest deeds it ever performs are executed”.
It has often passed through my mind, says Gourville, that men have their properties almost as herbs, and that their happiness consists in having been destined or [being] destined for the things for which they were born.
Injustice…is a mother who is never barren, and bears children worthy of her.
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