Paul Bourget Professions : Novelist Born : September 2, 1852 Died : December 25, 1935 Browse All Authors Top 18 quotes by Paul Bourget One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. Paul Bourget truth life lying We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived. Paul Bourget ends thinking Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen. Paul Bourget ill-health happiness thinking It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step. The flow-on effect. Opportunities will become evident. Motivations will become clear. Perspective will emerge. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived Paul Bourget motivation opportunity thinking There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one. Paul Bourget heart happiness mean Ideas are to literature what light is to painting. Paul Bourget light literature ideas There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love. Paul Bourget love-is men life Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the Paul Bourget flirting virtue sin There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. Paul Bourget complicity conditions blindness A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another. Paul Bourget experience doe love At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the Paul Bourget tone certain moments There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. Paul Bourget one-thing infamous life I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness. Paul Bourget meditating sleep reality There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives? Paul Bourget better-life aids duty The forests have taught man liberty. Paul Bourget liberty forests men Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day. Paul Bourget giving-up artist feelings Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there. Paul Bourget character lying art There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength. Paul Bourget delight intellectual idols Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
