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Sully Prudhomme
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“He who knows die, has no longer a master.”
Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And you think she's dead? | No. The day I mourned for her, | I did not distinguish funereal hanging drapes | nor did I see a coffin before his door. From”
Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think of my young colleagues who don't have the means to have their first poems printed. I'm going to reserve a sum [the one I received for the Nobel Prize] that will allow them to have their first notebooks of poems printed. I have already received a large amount of requests whose fulfillment would absorb the entire prize.”
Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is I, who deceives the breeze | with my pretty heartbeats... | O women! Sometimes, I lure her in | to your beautiful radiant eyes; || Sometimes, I catch her: and I bow, | making her my prisoner, | Why He Caresses Your Little Face | with a caress . || I bring you, to moved ears, | – of your hair trembling – | The sigh that makes them red | with sweet words of love. || It is I, who for you I am the one who sums it up: | And I help you to dissemble | or your sly smile, | or tears ready to flow. From Il fan”
Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We see sometimes, in the dark schools, | Kids who are always crying. | They go wild, the others in somersaults, | but they curl up in a song. | The strong say that they are maidens, | And the cunning call them innocent. | They are sweet, they give us toys; they will certainly not be traders...Quoted in: Gabriel D'Aubarède, The life and works of Sully Prudhomme, translation by Maria Luisa Spaziani, in The Nobel Prizes for Literature, vol. II, pp. 27-28.”
Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a woman is truly chaste, she is also incorruptible; I will be less likely to believe in the moral failures of angelic women. (Thursday, October 2, C.E.[1862], p. 51)”
Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I will come to a solution about the problem of time. When the infinite shows a hem of its garment, it casts its immense shadow over the problem; Then we grope, but it is a lost effort. (Saturday, October 4, C.E.[1862],, p. 52)”
Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pascal, I admire you, you are mine, I penetrate your thought as if I thought in you; magnanimous, deep sadness, deep as night; How it is full of faint distant lights! Be my teacher, adopt me; I suffer endlessly, I gravitate towards the truth, I never reach it. Have you really believed the revelation? (Sunday, October 5, C.E.[1862],, p. 53)”
Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When one has delved into a philosophical problem, one must, somehow, step back like a painter in front of the picture and look at what he has produced. (Saturday, January 30, C.E.[1864],, p. 87)”
Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Discourse on Virtue. Virtue does not promise anything, it merely takes pleasure in its own deeds. To courage he proposes trials of pain, and as a reward to life he offers the pure feeling of dignity. (Monday, February 1, C.E.[1864],, p. 92)”
Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sully Prudhomme, Journal inintima, translated by Pietro Lazzaro, Pensieri (Pensées), translated by Pietro Lazzaro, Poesie (Poésies), translated by Maria Luisa Spaziani, in I Premi Nobel per la Letteratura, vol. II, Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milan, 1965.”
Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source