Paul Bourget Quotes

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

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.

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

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

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

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

I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

The forests have taught man liberty.

Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful.

Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals.