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Quotes by French Authors
"I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them."
"Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem, ruse, illegal method, to be determined to conceal the truth, for the sole purpose of accomplishing, despite everything, the communist task'."
"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."
"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."
"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
"There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage."
"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."
"Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."
"Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live."
"The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed."
"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
"For a young man has strong imagination but poor judgment, so that he imagines others to be as big as he is but considers himself to be very small. He has unbounded trust in the universe but is constantly unsure of himself."
"Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003."
"An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts."
"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."
"Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened."
"A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself."
"I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community."
"It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken."
"It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original."
"We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us."
"But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else."
"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."
"But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of."
"A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself."
"Ability is nothing without opportunity."
"No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they're looking for."
"You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood."
"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue."
"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"
"To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist."
"Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see the film. They certainly aren't going to the projects to see for themselves the situation."
"I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas."
"I confused things with their names: that is belief."
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