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Quotes by French Authors
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity."
"Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder."
"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance."
"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."
"The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."
"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."
"France cannot be France without greatness."
"You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself."
"The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines."
"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
"The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression."
"Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being."
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."
"Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left."
"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
"Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness."
"Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society."
"It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it."
"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him."
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