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Quotes by French Authors
"I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists."
"People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs."
"Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse."
"We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world."
"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."
"So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time."
"Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result."
"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."
"Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls."
"Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went."
"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."
"I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties."
"A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning."
"Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue."
"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today."
"When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work."
"Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?"
"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."
"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."
"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."
"There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode."
"I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers."
"With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil."
"They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet."
"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."
"Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection."
"The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so."
"Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability."
"The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people."
"There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations."
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