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Quotes by French Authors
"Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it."
"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
"This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer."
"Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors."
"Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself."
"I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one."
"A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself."
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
"The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has."
"Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam."
"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud."
"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation."
"I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!"
"Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality."
"The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces."
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly."
"Half the world does not know how the other half lives."
"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."
"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"
"A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself."
"In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically."
"If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence."
"Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism."
"There is something great and terrible about suicide."
"Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious."
"We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols."
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