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Quotes from Cosmopolis — Paul Bourget

1852–1935 France

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There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

Cosmopolis (1892)

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

Cosmopolis (1892)

"There is an intelligent man, who never questions his ideas," said Dorsenne to himself, when the Marquis had left him. "He is like the Socialists. What vigor of mind in that old wornout machine!"

Cosmopolis (1892)

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

Cosmopolis (1892)

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

Cosmopolis (1892)

The forests have taught man liberty.

Cosmopolis (1892)

There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?

Cosmopolis (1892)

Attribution

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