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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."
"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance."
"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."
"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."
"France cannot be France without greatness."
"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."
"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."
"The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
"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."
"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."
"Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left."
"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
"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."
"It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough."
"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."
"Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being."
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