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LECONTE DE LISLE Charles (1818-1894). Autograph notebook, [ca. 1890]| about 95 pages small in-4 (22 x 17 cm) of a notebook, bound in original burgundy half-cornered half-percaline (the notebook partly detached from the binding), in a half-red morocco folder, slipcase.
Collection of quotations and personal aphorisms. Collection of quotations from writers, philosophers and scholars, sometimes of biblical or proverbial origin, almost all in prose : Renouvier, Hugo, Balzac, Baudelaire, Voltaire, Du Bellay, Fénelon, Bossuet, Rousseau, Bacon, Spinoza, Lessing, Shakespeare, Dostoïevski, Mme de Staël, Vacquerie, Louis Ménard, Barbier, etc., and by Leconte de Lisle himself ("Ego"), about art, poetry, thought, religion (numerous anti-religious aphorisms), women, etc. "Life is little, and death is nothing" (Voltaire, letter to Mrs. Du Deffant)... "Naturally curious, they want to know, either to use, or to abuse everything" (Diderot)... "Saapience doesn't enter in malivole soul, and science without conscience is only ruin of the soul " (Rabelais)... "I am not the man of the nature and I do not understand anything in the countries which do not have a history" (Flaubert, letters)... "The priests, in good rule, must make children only to married women" (Rousseau, Confessions)... "Thought is a secretion of the brain" (Broussais)... "We, Italians, owe to the Papacy this benefit to have become, in religious matter, indifferent or atheists" (Machiavelli)... "When the critic distils honey, he poisons it beforehand" ("Ego")... " Perfectly gifted for the analysis and the logic, the French head is of a poverty of imagination which astonishes " (Bourget)... "The Catholic puts his vanity in his servility" (Bulwer Lytton)... "Human life is only a perpetual illusion" (Pascal)... "Faith is a pathological state which is observed and not discussed" ("Ego")... Provenance : collection Armand GODOY.
Collection of quotations and personal aphorisms. Collection of quotations from writers, philosophers and scholars, sometimes of biblical or proverbial origin, almost all in prose : Renouvier, Hugo, Balzac, Baudelaire, Voltaire, Du Bellay, Fénelon, Bossuet, Rousseau, Bacon, Spinoza, Lessing, Shakespeare, Dostoïevski, Mme de Staël, Vacquerie, Louis Ménard, Barbier, etc., and by Leconte de Lisle himself ("Ego"), about art, poetry, thought, religion (numerous anti-religious aphorisms), women, etc. "Life is little, and death is nothing" (Voltaire, letter to Mrs. Du Deffant)... "Naturally curious, they want to know, either to use, or to abuse everything" (Diderot)... "Saapience doesn't enter in malivole soul, and science without conscience is only ruin of the soul " (Rabelais)... "I am not the man of the nature and I do not understand anything in the countries which do not have a history" (Flaubert, letters)... "The priests, in good rule, must make children only to married women" (Rousseau, Confessions)... "Thought is a secretion of the brain" (Broussais)... "We, Italians, owe to the Papacy this benefit to have become, in religious matter, indifferent or atheists" (Machiavelli)... "When the critic distils honey, he poisons it beforehand" ("Ego")... " Perfectly gifted for the analysis and the logic, the French head is of a poverty of imagination which astonishes " (Bourget)... "The Catholic puts his vanity in his servility" (Bulwer Lytton)... "Human life is only a perpetual illusion" (Pascal)... "Faith is a pathological state which is observed and not discussed" ("Ego")... Provenance : collection Armand GODOY.