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Quotes by French Authors
"On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance."
"Punctuality is the politeness of kings."
"His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings."
"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
"To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality."
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
"The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light."
"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it."
"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."
"To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them fully in focus, it is merely our older images of them that we have clarified, but which are themselves already out of date."
"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."
"Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth."
"Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from."
"It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough."
"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men."
"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
"In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth."
"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."
"The king must die so that the country can live."
"Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit."
"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
"If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."
"Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant."
"You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty."
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
"After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city."
"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
"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."
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