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Quotes by French Authors
"The worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth."
"There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect."
"One night I summoned God, if He really existed, to show Himself to me. He didn't, and I never addressed another word to Him. In my heart of hearts I was very glad He didn't exist. I should have hated it if what was going on here below had had to end up in eternity."
"One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans."
"However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him."
"It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good."
"I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it."
"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."
"He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life."
"French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic."
"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."
"A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests."
"Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations."
"I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them."
"It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics."
"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter."
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."
"The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change."
"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."
"Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it."
"The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements."
"Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic."
"Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind."
"...if the actor gave his performance without knowing that he was in a play, then his tears would be real tears and his life a real life. And whenever I think of this pain and joy that rise up in me, I am carried away by the knowledge that the game I am playing is the most serious and exciting there is."
"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."
"We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think."
"Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?"
"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."
"Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell."
"You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words."
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