19 Quotes by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

With everyone born human, a poet – an artist – is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.