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Quotes by French Authors
"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."
"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."
"Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment."
"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone."
"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale."
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."
"We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too."
"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."
"No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point."
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
"I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself."
"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him."
"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."
"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all."
"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."
"For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk."
"There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray."
"I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."
"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."
"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."
"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
"One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived."
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