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Quotes by French Authors
"Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory... Everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion - it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from."
"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise."
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies."
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
"Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can."
"I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error."
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
"There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God."
"For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy."
"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful."
"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."
"We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too."
"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."
"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."
"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."
"Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."
"No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ."
"You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting."
"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."
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