"The truly gifted always remain in obscurity amongst the crowd and shun as much as possible the display of their talents."

"La doctrine des forêts est antique comme l’histoire des hommes, et même plus vieille qu’elle.."

[Text] "Vanka Zhukov, a boy of nine, who had been for three months apprenticed to Alyahin the shoemaker, was sitting up on Christmas Eve..."

"A group of pleasant people in idyllic surroundings, hopelessly at odds with themselves and with one another."

[Texte] "– Écoute, Grîcha, lui dit-il .. voici ce dont il s’agit ... prête-moi, pour aujourd’hui, ta décoration de Saint-Stanislas."

"– En ce monde, remarque tout à coup Iâchkine, tout est inutile !"

"J’aime la nuit avec passion. Je l’aime comme on aime son pays ou sa maîtresse, d’un amour instinctif, profond, invincible."

"- Gentlemen, I stake two million !" "- Agreed ! You stake your millions and I stake my freedom !" said the young man."

"Nous fûmes tout d’abord deux ou trois seulement à découvrir en nous cet intérêt pour les arts, la musique, la littérature..."

Lire Léon Deubel aujourd'hui, c'est rendre hommage à l'un des derniers "poètes maudits", qui consacra sa courte vie à la poésie.

Poème "Lassitude" de Renée Vivien, issu de son recueil "Cendres et Poussières" publié en 1902.

"L’épouvantable monde où nous vivons donne le goût de l’isolement et de la fatalité."

“La mer, qui bat la plage à cent pas de là, fait à ses rêveries indécises un puissant et monotone accompagnement“.

Florilège de citations et extraits de deux oeuvres de Remy de Gourmont : "Promenades littéraires", et "Des pas sur le sable".

"After you have done with all your classes, the next thing is a collection of books, a great library of good books."

" "Pour moi, une vie sans musique serait insupportable... je la dédaignerai et m'en débarrasserai."

[Quotations] "I believe that we are on earth for this purpose, for contemplating and searching and listening for lost remote sounds..."

"One of my mental complications — horrible beyond words — is a fear of insanity, which itself is insanity."

”What one takes from this biography is a sense of a man who wanted simultaneously to be no one and to be everyone."

"However much my soul may be descended from the Romantics, I can find no peace of mind except in reading classical authors."

"The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone."

[Essay] "If one were to compile a list of modernist authors, ... chances are quite good that the authors selected would be insomniacs."

"While Hesse recognized that ideas of degeneration existed during this period, he warned the reader not to yield to despair."

"Just as the artist needs a space in which to work, the artist also opens a space with the work of art."