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French author, Birth: 23-12-1804, Death: 13-10-1869
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With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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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.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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

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The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve