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Quotes by French Authors
"There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart."
"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."
"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."
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."
"The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines."
"Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can."
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things."
"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world."
"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies."
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity."
"There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God."
"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."
"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."
"Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing."
"There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."
"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
"I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error."
"We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place."
"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro."
"You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself."
"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
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