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Quotes by French Authors
"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men."
"If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."
"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."
"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."
"Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant."
"This is the century of fear."
"Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the same conclusion? Don't they have the same meaning? So, what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in either case, they signify what I have been and what I am? One can sometimes see more clearly in a person who is lying than in one who is telling the truth. Like light, truth dazzles. Untruth, on the other hand, is a beautiful dusk that enhances everything."
"If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat."
"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery."
"Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank."
"After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city."
"It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life."
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."
"Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death."
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."
"What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship."
"We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks."
"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful."
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin."
"You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty."
"We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire."
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
"A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none."
"Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred."
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."
"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."
"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."
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