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Quotes by French Authors
"In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will."
"I always say I was born too late in the world, too old."
"Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish."
"The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong."
"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit."
"France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose."
"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."
"Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism."
"Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia."
"I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life."
"A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature."
"If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas."
"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
"I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace."
"These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity."
"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."
"The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress."
"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."
"Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it."
"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
"Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary."
"To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent."
"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."
"Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair."
"You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so."
"Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable."
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