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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."
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance."
"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."
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."
"Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness."
"Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left."
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
"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 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."
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning."
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."
"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."
"The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light."
"His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings."
"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
"To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality."
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
"Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit."
"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
"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."
"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."
"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."
"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."
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