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Quotes by French Authors
"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
"Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite."
"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."
"I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it."
"I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself."
"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."
"For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement."
"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves."
"But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing."
"One promises much, to avoid giving little."
"It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting."
"In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory."
"He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead."
"Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity."
"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale."
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."
"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."
"The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another."
"First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people."
"What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy."
"We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down."
"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
"In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable."
"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
"I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring."
"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
"Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world."
"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."
"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."
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