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Quotes by French Authors
"The king must die so that the country can live."
"The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it."
"I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old."
"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
"The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear."
"There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God."
"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
"Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love."
"Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth."
"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."
"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored."
"No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ."
"That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin."
"One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it."
"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."
"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
"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."
"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."
"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."
"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."
"The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread."
"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."
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