Alfred Capus Quotes
Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.
Quotes to Explore
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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New York ladies all look immaculate.
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But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
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I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.
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Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.
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'Is this being in love?' he suddenly wondered? It was nothing like the ballads he had heard sung-this was more irritating than uplifting.
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.
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For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape.
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Who lacks confidence speaks lies more readily.
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A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.
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Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.
