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Quotes by French Authors
"Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself."
"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."
"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."
"What is perfectly true is perfectly witty."
"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."
"Let us give Nature a chance, she knows her business better than we do."
"The human race is governed by its imagination."
"Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them."
"Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done."
"I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding."
"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
"The world always says the same thing. And in that patient truth which proceeds from star to star is established a freedom that releases us from ourselves and from others, as in that other patient truth which proceeds from death to death."
"We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer."
"To be happy we must not be too concerned with others."
"Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."
"Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny."
"Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism."
"Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness compassion intelligence everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible the absolute the sky on fire inexhaustible springtime life after death and death itself transfigured into eternal life."
"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."
"Never cut what you can untie."
"We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation."
"I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children."
"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."
"To be a man is precisely to be responsible."
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
"I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe."
"In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
"My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that one could add nothing more to them."
"Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring with a long-drawn note the solitude that pressed it on every side, but it received at once so unanimous an answer, so powerful a repercussion of silence and of immobility, that one felt it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly."
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
"Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall."
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