Quotes by Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

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The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie in the Heavens?
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Live? Our servants will do that for us..
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If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be, in a word, sounds other than what they actually were, and from what their phonographic labels pretended they were – since it's in ourselves that the silence exists. It was while the sounds were still mysterious that it would have been really interesting to render the mystery palpable and transferable.
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I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
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Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life.
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There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
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Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?