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Quotes by French Authors
"The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate."
"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."
"King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France."
"The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people."
"The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them."
"To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight."
"One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors."
"I walked past her, thinking: Is this what happens to the youth of women? Those whom we have met in the past, if suddenly we desire to see them again, have they become old? Is the young woman whom we desire like a character on the stage, when, unable to secure the actress who created the part, the management is obliged to entrust it to a new star? But then it is no longer the same."
"Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment."
"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
"I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself."
"Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings."
"Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost."
"What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart."
"Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries."
"Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know."
"The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?"
"But he did not tell her, for he realised how petty it would appear to her, and how different from what she had expected, less sensational and less touching; he was afraid, too, lest, disillusioned in the matter of art, she might at the same time be disillusioned in the greater matter of love."
"The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims."
"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
"Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation."
"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship."
"If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail."
"It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere."
"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin."
"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
"It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational."
"Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors."
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