Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#Men #Sometimes #Amazed
Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#Men #Vocabulary #Twists
Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore â€“ if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#Quality #Dare #Ifs
Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#Feelings #Sometimes #Crosses
My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#Zero #Self #Doe
If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well.
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#Love Is #Our Love #Said
Brunettes are full of electricity.
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#Brunette #Electricity
There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#Get Well #Heal #Wounds
Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#Voice #Arrows #Bird
I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#Love #Age #Aspiration

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