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L'odeur est l'intelligence des fleurs.
- Henry de Montherlant
#montherlant#henry de montherlant#quote#french#fleurs#flowers#smell#intelligence#femme#beauty#nature
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Stenio Solinas, “I castelli di sabbia eterni di Montherlant”, “Il Giornale”, 4 giugno 2024, p. 26.
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« L’acte fondamental d’une vie est de décider ce qui est important de ce qui ne l’est pas, et l’indifférence, l’indifférence active pour ce qui ne l’est pas est un devoir aussi strict que l’attention à ce qui l’est. »
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C’est quand la chose manque, qu’il faut y mettre le mot.
Henry de Montherlant (La Reine morte, 1942)
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“Le bonheur est un état bien plus noble et bien plus raffiné que la souffrance, le petit luxe des personnes de médiocre qualit��” —Henry de Montherlant paraphrased in ‘The Recognitions’ by William Gaddis
(English Translation: “Happiness is a much nobler and more refined state than suffering, the small luxury of people of mediocre quality”)
there is no inherent virtue in suffering, but being able to take a lot of suffering with aplomb is a cool trait, and there is inherent virtue in being cool. so.
#sorry to infringe on the spirit of ur post but I just read this literally 2 pages ago#& it was so shockingly relevant#feel free to ignore#the recognitions#montherlant#william gaddis#the themes of refracted repetition bleeding out from the novel at this point#(this quote in the novel ending a discussion on the potential virtues of suffering)#& i’m p sure ur post is more in the spirit of characters who spit blood & say ‘is that all u got’ during a torture scene#& not commending people who don’t sleep & feel superior about it#etc
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La fedeltà non è negli atti, ma nel cuore.
Henry De Montherlant
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Pierre-Yves Tremois
Henry de Montherlant
1953
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Henry de Montherlant, aged 5, with his mother, ca. 1900
Jean de Beer, Montherlant; ou, L'homme encombré de Dieu (Paris: Flammarion, 1963)
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L'art de vivre en société est l'art de donner aux gens le sentiment qu'ils existent pour vous.
— Henry de Montherlant, Va jouer avec cette poussière
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L'escrime est une science physique, morale et intellectuelle.
Henry de Montherlant
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D. Brullo, “Sia lodato Montherlant l’ultimo (im)moralista”, Il Giornale, 12 aprile 2023, p. 22. #Montherlant #GiulioCesare #Aragno
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"[…] qui donc écrira une "Histoire secrète de la littérature française" ? Le public ignorant et jobard y apprendrait le pourquoi des réussites et des échecs, des "situations" internationales et de celles qui ne parviennent pas à l’être, de l’invulnérabilité de certains personnages, plus coupables pourtant que quiconque, des réputations gonflées sans mesure et des silences par lesquels, cinquante ans durant, on maintient des écrivains de grande classe comme murés vivants au fond d’une tombe ; ils y apprendraient le rôle que jouent les puissances occultes dans la distribution de la célébrité, que naïvement il n’explique que par le talent."
Henry de Montherlant, Essais critiques, 1950
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La cupola
La cupola di San Pietro è lo spegnitoio del pensiero occidentale.
H. de Montherlant, Le chaos et la nuit [1963], Il caos e la notte, Milano, Bompiani, 1972 [Trad. G. Mormino]
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Reading a 20th century french play and getting weird feelings about how the foreword seems to dance about the importance of the "sexuality" and "desire" of the author without ever naming it explicitely. (The edition I have and the foreword are both from 2006 so I really doubted that they felt uneasy clarifying that the author was gay).
Go check on wikipedia:
Which reads as:
"Controversies:
Relationships with boys:
Relations to women:"
...
Tell me you are a misogynist pedophile, without telling me that you are a misogynist pedophile.
#tw csa#it's Henry de Montherlant to be clear#and I still plan to read the play because the guy is dead and it is a classic#but like#i am so tired about this veil of coyness we threw on these guys so we don't speak about the elephant in the fucking room#because of course he was a pedocriminal and not just a guy struggling with his desires#of course he went to northern africa to abuse young arab boys making France imperial rule even more heinous#of course he wrote insane things about women#and we are like “let's not really mention because it's unconfortable”#I hate it
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