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Quotes by French Authors
"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
"It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty."
"Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. There upon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else."
"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."
"Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them."
"As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow."
"True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years."
"Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools."
"The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand."
"All for one and one for all."
"It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me."
"If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists."
"Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth."
"Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes."
"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv."
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
"The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century."
"Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves."
"I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists."
"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion."
"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."
"Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim."
"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
"Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been."
"France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete."
"There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation."
"When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do."
"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."
"Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it."
"I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me."
"We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate."
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