Catulle Mendes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.

  • We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

  • God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

  • You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

  • Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

  • Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

  • If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.

  • Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

  • Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

  • In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.