Quotes by Émile Faguet

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The artistic sense is, in essence, nothing but the living feeling of life. Who lives outside of himself, or rather, he in whom external things live a concentrated and burning life.

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Art is unity. It is proper to art an effort to bring into a certain kind of harmonious and charming unity the diversity and apparent disorder which reigns in nature.

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Reading imposes the habit of examination of conscience and, at the same time, gives it to us... Literature proper is the painting of our soul, our morals, with a little scholarly exaggeration, intended to highlight the most important and interesting parts of reality.