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Quotes from Andre Cornelis — Paul Bourget

1852–1935 France

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6 quotes

Was I saved? Was I lost? All depended on the moment at which somebody might go into my stepfather's room.

Andre Cornelis (1886)

Forgive me, Marie. I was suffering too much. I wanted to be done with it.

Andre Cornelis (1886)

The blade entered his body to the hilt.
No sooner had I done this thing than I recoiled, wild with terror at the deed.

Andre Cornelis (1886)

My remorse is not for having seized the weapon and struck the blow, it is that I owe to him — to him — that infamous good service which he did me — that I cannot to the present hour shake from me the horrible gift I have received from that man.

Andre Cornelis (1886)

I recognize the invincible influence of the dead in the pallor of her cheeks, the wrinkles in her eyelids, the white streaks in her hair. He disputes her with me from the darkness of his coffin; he takes her from me, hour by hour, and I am powerless against that love.

Andre Cornelis (1886)

My poor aunt! She thought me made of sterner stuff than I really was. There was no need of her advice to prevent my being consumed by the desire for vengeance which had been the fixed star of my early youth, the blood-colored beacon aflame in my night.

Andre Cornelis (1886)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paul Bourget (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.