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Quotes by French Authors
"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin."
"Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank."
"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."
"You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself."
"The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines."
"Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death."
"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."
"This is the century of fear."
"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."
"If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat."
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."
"What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship."
"We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks."
"Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the same conclusion? Don't they have the same meaning? So, what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in either case, they signify what I have been and what I am? One can sometimes see more clearly in a person who is lying than in one who is telling the truth. Like light, truth dazzles. Untruth, on the other hand, is a beautiful dusk that enhances everything."
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."
"I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling."
"The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know."
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."
"It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life."
"A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none."
"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."
"To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
"Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred."
"Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have."
"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."
"We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire."
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