“One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.”
— Paul Bourget
“Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.”
— Paul Bourget
“Even after making up one’s mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy”
— Paul Bourget
“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one’syouthful ideals.”
— Paul Bourget
“Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful.”
— Paul Bourget
“At certain moments, words are nothing; it is thetone in which they are uttered.”
— Paul Bourget