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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are.

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.