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Quotes by French Authors
"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."
"Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder."
"I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling."
"In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory."
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."
"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
"Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat."
"The king must die so that the country can live."
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible."
"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise."
"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."
"Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it."
"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."
"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius."
"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."
"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
"It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure."
"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
"No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart."
"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions."
"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."
"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."
"I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products."
"Peace is a natural effect of trade."
"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."
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