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Quotes by French Authors
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
"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."
"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."
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance."
"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
"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."
"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."
"After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city."
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."
"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."
"Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left."
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
"It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough."
"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it."
"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
"Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder."
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
"On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance."
"To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality."
"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
"In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth."
"Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit."
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