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Quotes by French Authors
"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."
"How could women ever have had genius when all possibility of accomplishing a work of genius - or just a work - was refused them?"
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
"The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea."
"If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force."
"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
"It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one."
"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."
"The state of slavery is in its own nature bad."
"Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it."
"Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way."
"There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary."
"I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered."
"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains."
"Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others."
"Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading."
"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."
"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, - 'Wait and hope.' " Your friend, Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo. The eyes of both were fixed on the spot indicated by the sailor, and on the blue-line separating the sky from the Mediterranean Sea, they perceived a large white sail."
"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."
"Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably."
"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."
"How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?"
"After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave."
"In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests."
"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
"Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis."
"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
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