Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Henry de Montherlant, fully Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant
French Playwright, Novelist, Poet, Essayist
"We like someone because. We love someone although."
"I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness."
"Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end."
"Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them."
"Great ideas are not charitable."