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Quotes by French Authors
"However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white."
"In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end."
"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
"I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others."
"When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left."
"We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice."
"I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure."
"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
"There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened."
"Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went."
"It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men."
"In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings."
"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."
"In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
"The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress."
"The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile."
"Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way."
"In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act."
"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
"I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics."
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