French poet, essayist and editor. He was born 7 January 1873 in Orléans, France and died 5 September 1914 in battle, shot in the forehead, in Villeroy, Seine-et-Marne, France, during World War I.
A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.
Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. .
