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Quotes by French Authors
"Doubt is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness."
"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul."
"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."
"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."
"Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable."
"It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record."
"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."
"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."
"Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence."
"It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle."
"I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations."
"Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them."
"Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death."
"Some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her."
"The present is a transitory existence which is made in order to be abolished: it retrieves itself only by transcending itself toward the permanence of future being; it is only as an instrument, as a means, it is only by it's efficacy with regard to the coming of the future that the present is validly realized: reduced to itself it is nothing , one may dispose of it as he pleases."
"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"
"My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation."
"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."
"Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist."
"I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices."
"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful."
"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."
"There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God."
"There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding."
"The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches."
"Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom."
"All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay."
"The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past."
"We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself."
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
"The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society."
"To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings."
"Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself."
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