“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals.”
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Famous Paul Bourget Quotes
“Il faut vivre comme on pense, sans quoi l'on finira par penser comme on a vécu.”
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“There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.”
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“Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.”
“There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.”
“There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.”
“One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.”
“I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.”
“At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.”
“Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.”
“We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.”