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There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

Paul Bourget (1852-1935) French critic, poet, novelist
Cosmopolis, ch. 4 “Approaching Danger” (1892)
 
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There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

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Paul Bourget (1852-1935) French critic, poet, novelist
Cosmopolis, ch. 5 (1892) [tr. Arnot (1905)]
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Alternate translation:

There is such a thing as voluntary blindness which is little better than collusion.
[tr. Moffett (1898)]
 
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We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we live.

[Cet enseignement, c’est qu’il faut vivre comme on pense, sinon, tôt ou tard, on finit par penser comme on a vécu.]

Paul Bourget (1852-1935) French critic, poet, novelist
The Demon of Noonday [Le Démon de Midi], Epilogue (1914)

Alt. trans.: "This teaching is to live as we think, otherwise, sooner or later, we end up thinking as we lived."
 
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