Camille Magnouloux > Camille's Quotes

“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“Il n'y a pas de réussite facile ni d'échecs définitifs.”
― Proust Marcel, La fugitiva

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
-Gabriel Oak”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“You couldn’t trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“No past and no future. Save for the fireworker himself, no one ever knows the grand finale is the grand finale until it’s over. And at that point, wherever one is, one won’t ever really have been anywhere else.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“Aren’t you somehow right here with me? I mean, who doesn’t still dream of a world other than this one?”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game