Alphonse Daudet
French novelist
| Date of Birth | : | 13 May, 1840 |
| Date of Death | : | 16 Dec, 1897 |
| Place of Birth | : | Nîmes, France |
| Profession | : | Novelist |
| Nationality | : | French |
Alphonse Daudet was a French short-story writer and novelist, now remembered chiefly as the author of sentimental tales of provincial life in the south of France.
Life
Daudet was the son of a silk manufacturer. In 1849 his father had to sell his factory and move to Lyon. Alphonse wrote his first poems and his first novel at age 14. In 1857 his parents lost all their money, and Daudet had to give up his hopes of matriculating. His work as an usher at a school at Alès for six unhappy months culminated in his dismissal but later furnished the theme, with embellishments and omissions, for his semiautobiographical novel Le Petit Chose (1868; “The Little Thing”). At the end of the year he joined his elder brother, Ernest, in Paris.
Quotes
Total 13 Quotes
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.
Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.
Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.
There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures, that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.
La meilleure facon d'imposer une idée aux autres, c'est de leur faire croire qu'elle vient d'eux
El hombre del Mediodía no miente, se equivoca. No dice siempre la verdad, pero cree que la dice… Para él, su mentira no es mentira. Es una especie de espejismo.
Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him. Everyone will get used to it except me.
Pain, you must be everything for me. Let me find in you all those foreign lands you will not let me visit.
Çok az kişinin anlayıp hakkını vereceği bir uğraş için neden bu kadar çabaladığını sorduklarında şu dediklerimi hatırka: 'Birkaç kişi anlasa da bana yeter, bir kişi bile yeter, hatta kimse anlamasa da razıyım.
