Paul Bourget Quotes

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

  Paul Bourget

  Life, Truth, Lying

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

  Paul Bourget

  Thinking, Ends

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

  Paul Bourget

  Happiness, Thinking, Ill Health

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• It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step. The flow-on effect. Opportunities will become evident. Motivations will become clear. Perspective will emerge. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived

  Paul Bourget

  Motivation, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

  Paul Bourget

  Light, Ideas, Literature

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

  Paul Bourget

  Flirting, Sin, Virtue

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

  Paul Bourget

  Happiness, Heart, Mean

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

  Paul Bourget

  Blindness, Complicity, Conditions

  Paul Bourget (1893). “Cosmopolis”, p.152, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Paul Bourget

  Life, Love Is, Men

  "The Age for Love" by Paul Bourget,

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

  Paul Bourget

  Tone, Moments, Certain

  "Cosmopolis". Ch. 5 "Countess Steno". Book by Paul Bourget, 1892.

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

  Paul Bourget

  Love, Experience, Doe

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

  Paul Bourget

  Life, Infamous, One Thing

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• The forests have taught man liberty.

  Paul Bourget

  Men, Liberty, Forests

  "Cosmopolis". Ch. 2 "The Beginning of a Drama". Book by Paul Bourget, 1892.

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

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  Sleep, Reality, Meditating

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• 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?

  Paul Bourget

  Aids, Better Life, Duty

  Paul Bourget (1893). “Cosmopolis”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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• Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.

  Paul Bourget

  Giving Up, Artist, Feelings

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

  Paul Bourget

  Idols, Intellectual, Delight

  Paul Bourget (1908). “Cosmopolis: Crowned by the French Academy”

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• 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.

  Paul Bourget

  Art, Lying, Character

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