Paul Bourget famous quotes

03-25-2025

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
-- Paul Bourget

#Thinking #Honor #Way
We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.
-- Paul Bourget

#Thinking #Ends
Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.
-- Paul Bourget

#Happiness #Thinking #Unhappiness
Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.
-- Paul Bourget

#Ideas #Light #Literature
There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.
-- Paul Bourget

#Happiness #Mean #Heart
A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
-- Paul Bourget

#Experience #Use #Doe
It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step. The flow-on effect. Opportunities will become evident. Motivations will become clear. Perspective will emerge. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived
-- Paul Bourget

#Motivation #Opportunity #Thinking
At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.
-- Paul Bourget

#Tone #Moments #Certain
Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.
-- Paul Bourget

#Giving Up #Artist #Feelings
There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.
-- Paul Bourget

#Blindness #Complicity
There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.
-- Paul Bourget

#Idols #Intellectual #Delight
The forests have taught man liberty.
-- Paul Bourget

#Men #Liberty #Forests
There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?
-- Paul Bourget

#Better Life #Aids #Duty
I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.
-- Paul Bourget

#Reality
There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.
-- Paul Bourget

#Life #Infamous #Falsehood
There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.
-- Paul Bourget

#Life #Love Is #Men
Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.
-- Paul Bourget

#Flirting #Sin #Virtue
Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.
-- Paul Bourget

#Art #Lying #Character

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