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Quotes by French Authors
"To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable."
"Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals."
"An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it."
"Everyone sees drama from his own perspective."
"The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us."
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."
"I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it."
"The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided."
"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
"The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty."
"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."
"Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on."
"Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."
"If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing."
"I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature."
"If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."
"My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him - we bring him back to Rome , and present him to him holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; Then we merely ask for a cariage and a pair of horses, and we will see the Carnival in the carriage , and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the capitol , and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preservers of there country." Whilst Albert proposed this scheme, signor Pastrini's face assumed an expression impossible to describe."
"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."
"At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things."
"When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all."
"Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest."
"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
"All men are Prophets or else God does not exist."
"If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides."
"I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on."
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