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Scientific literature

Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity.

Georges Louis Leclerc

1753

★ 0.9

Scientific literature

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

1901

★ 0.9

Autobiography and memoir

Sculpture should walk on the tips of its toes, unostentatious, unpretentious, and light as the spoor of an animal in snow.

★ 0.9

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

1678

★ 1.0

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or feign it where it does not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

1678

★ 1.0

Scientific literature

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive.

Antoine Lavoisier

1789

★ 1.0

Philosophical literature

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Nicolas Chamfort

1796

★ 1.0

A hint-don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! Study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God-to create like our Divine Master.

1888

★ 1.0

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

1897

★ 1.0

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of trouble and depressing subject matter. An art which might be for every mental worker, be he businessman or writer, like an appeasing influence, like a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

1908

★ 1.0

I obey Nature, and never do I dare give orders to it. My only ambition is servile fidelity to it.

1910

★ 1.0

The whole effect of Christianity was to transfer the drama onto the moral plane.

The Counterfeiters · 1925

★ 1.0

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

1932

★ 1.0

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1952

★ 1.0

Fable and fairytale

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

1668

★ 1.1

Novel · Historical literature

One reproaches a lover, but can one reproach a husband, when his only fault is that he no longer loves?

Madame de La Fayette

1678

★ 1.1

Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert.

The Red and the Black · 1830

★ 1.1

I want anyone tired, worn down, driven to the limits of endurance, to find calm and repose in my painting.

1913

★ 1.1

Novel · Modernist literature

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

In Search of Lost Time · 1913

★ 1.1

The only valid thing in art is that which cannot be explained.

1957

★ 1.1

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