Henry de Montherlant Quotes

• Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Writing, White, Ink

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• A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenomenon never before experienced since the beginning of time. I accuse the United States of being in a constant state of crime against humanity.

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  Race, Humanity, Quality

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• We like someone because. We love someone although.

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  Love, Love Someone

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• We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

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  Confusion, Understood

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• Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

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  Courage, Affection, Habit

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• There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

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  Inspiring, Heart, Soul

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• Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.

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  Beautiful, Stupid, Men

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• I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

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  Ocean, Ideas, Made

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• Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

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  Men, Triumph, World

  Henry de Montherlant (1960). “Selected Essays”, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson

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• A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

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  Dream, Men, Thinking

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• ... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find an excuse for loving it. Everything is a matter of points of view, and misfortune is often only the sign of a false interpretation of life.

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  Views, Tasks, May

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• Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

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  Atheism, Disease, Mankind

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• It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

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  Creativity, Unhappy, World

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• It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.

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  Missing

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• It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

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  Chance, Individual, Various

  Henry de Montherlant (1960). “Selected Essays”, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson

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• The United States is evil ... it is the canker of the world.

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  Evil, United States, World

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• One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

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  Art, Unhappy, World

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• Great ideas are not charitable.

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  Ideas, Charitable, Great Idea

  Henry de Montherlant (1951). “The Master of Santiago: And Four Other Plays”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• The United States is evil.

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  Evil, United States, States

  Henry de Montherlant (1964). “Chaos and night: a novel”

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