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A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. - [Critics] Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - [Order] Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. - [Art] Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless. - [Stupidity] Exuberance is better than taste. - [Abundance : Taste] Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. - [Speech] I believe that if one always looked at the sky, one would end up with wings. - [Dreams] Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc wreaking. - [Money] Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. - [Poetry] The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft. - [Soul] The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. - [Democracy] To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. - [Happiness] We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a "new fellow," not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work. - Madame Bovary (ch. 1), (Eleanor Marx-Aveling translation) [Books (First Lines)] Julian's father and mother lived in a castle with a forest round it, on the slope of a hill. - Three Tales, The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller, second short story, ch. 1 [Books (First Lines)] Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century. - Three Tales, A Simple Heart, first short story, ch. 1 [Books (First Lines)] The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind. - Three Tales, Herodias, third short story, ch. 1 [Books (First Lines)]
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