19 Quotes by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
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In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
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Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
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What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?
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I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.
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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
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Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
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Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
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If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
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