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Quotes by French Authors
"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."
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."
"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance."
"Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder."
"The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."
"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."
"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."
"It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it."
"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world."
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
"Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left."
"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."
"Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness."
"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."
"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent."
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
"Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love."
"The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character."
"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius."
"There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning."
"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."
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