Quotes by Albert Thibaudet

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There is, in fact, only one theme of art and human thought: man before the enigma of life. Pain is undoubtedly an obstacle to life, but an obstacle that directs our face and eyes to this enigma, exposes it to us under the narrow angle that gives it intelligible lines and allows us, perhaps, to unravel it.

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However original the works of genius may be, they are made by men and for men: we vibrate with them in so far as they are full of humanity, and the feeling by which we penetrate their beauty is in no way different from the feeling that created them .

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The genuine novelist creates his characters in the infinite directions of his possible life; the factious novelist creates them on the unique line of his real life.