All Quotes
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“There is, in the world, no such thing as a poor man who has not been rich for a moment.”
“I want to write, but salt comes out of my pen.”
“The poet is a small god who creates worlds with his words.”
“Quelques mots d'introduction,”
“De l'héroïsme de la vie moderne,”
“Nous avons psychologisé comme les fous, qui augmentent leur folie en s’efforçant de la comprendre. We have psychologized like the insane, who aggravate their madness in struggling to understand it. "La Fanfarlo" (1847) [3]”
“La danse peut révéler tout ce que la musique recèle de mystérieux, et elle a de plus le mérite d'être humaine et palpable. La danse, c'est la poésie avec des bras et des jambs, ... Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. "La Fanfarlo" (1847) [4]”
“Ébauche d’un épilogue pour la 2e édition,”
“Hélas! tout est abîme,”
“Delacroix était passionnément amoureux de la passion, et froidement déterminé à chercher les moyens d'exprimer la passion de la manière la plus visible. Dans ce double caractère, nous trouvons, disons”
“L’artiste, homme du monde, homme des foules et enfant”
“Hypocrite lecteur,”
“Si le viol, le poison, le poignard, l'incendie, N'ont pas encor brodé de leurs plaisants dessins Le canevas banal de nos piteux destins, C'est que notre âme, hélas! n'est pas assez hardie .”
“The Beagle staid at St. Helena five days, during which time I lived in the clouds in the centre of the Isd.”
“throw off minute granules or atoms, which circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self”
“(It is sometimes claimed that modern biologist are dogmatic "Darwinists" who uncritically accept all of Darwin's ideas. This is false: No one today accepts Darwin's hypothesis of gemmules and pangenesis .)”
“Concluding Remarks and Summary”
“Aggregation of the Protoplasm within the Cells of the Tentacles”
“(Detractors sometimes claim Darwin thought that the cell was an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm. Anyone reading the passage above will realize that Darwin thought no such thing.)”
“de minimis lex non curat ,”
“de minimis non curat lex”
“As I was led to keep in my study during many months worms in pots filled with earth, I became interested in them, and wished to learn how far they acted consciously, and how much mental power they displayed. Introduction, p. 2”
“On the Formation of Mould,”
“A Dinner at Poplar Walk”
“If any one were to ask me what in my opinion was the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth, I should decidedly say Chelmsford . Letter to Thomas Beard (11 January 1835), in Madeline House, et al ., The Letters of Charles Dickens (1965), p. 53”
“Love is not a feeling to pass away, Like the balmy breath of a summer day; It is not”
“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. Master Humphrey's Clock , (1840) Vol. 1”
“The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, In England there shall be dear bread”
“I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. Comment while on an American tour (March 1842), as quoted in Dickens (1949) by Hesketh Pearson, Ch. 8”
“O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations. The Chimes , Second Quarter”