“The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.”
Le monde est fait pour aboutir à un beau livre.
Remark made to Jules Huret, who published it in his Enquête sur l’évolution littéraire (1891); as translated in Stéphane Mallarmé (1969) by Frederic Chase St. Aubyn, p. 23.
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French Symbolist poet 1842–1898Related quotes
“The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.”
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Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.
I. 14.
Pamela (c. 1750)
“Every person in order to respect himself has to see the world as beautiful or good or acceptable.”
Eli Siegel (1902–1978) Latvian-American poet, philosopher
Self and World (1957)
Marek Żukow-Karczewski (1961) Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist
Enchanted by beauty (three forgotten relations), "Aura" 1, 1998-01, p. 17-19. http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.agro-article-d2f0773c-592e-4250-8f73-558234a9140e?q=3c417fdf-4051-4e84-83b2-9eb4fc33b1e0$1&qt=IN_PAGE
Jules Verne book The Mysterious Island
<p>Les hommes, Pencroff, si savants qu’ils puissent être, ne pourront jamais changer quoi que ce soit à l’ordre cosmographique établi par Dieu même.</p></p><p>— Et pourtant, ajouta Pencroff, qui montra une certaine difficulté à se résigner, le monde est bien savant! Quel gros livre, monsieur Cyrus, on ferait avec tout ce qu’on sait!</p><p>
Et quel plus gros livre encore avec tout ce qu’on ne sait pas, répondit Cyrus Smith.</p>
Part III, ch. XIV
The Mysterious Island (1874)
James Branch Cabell book The Cream of the Jest
Afterpiece : a hidden inscription on the Sigil of Scoteia (and so spelled, in a peculiar modification of Roman capital letters)
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
Context: James Branch Cabell made this book so that he who wills may read the story of mans eternally unsatisfied hunger in search of beauty. Ettarre stays inaccessible always and her lovliness is his to look on only in his dreams. All men she must evade at the last and many ar the ways of her elusion.
“Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.”
Elizabeth von Arnim book The Enchanted April
Source: The Enchanted April
