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Quotes by French Authors
"The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes."
"Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature."
"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation."
"Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations."
"But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter."
"Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan."
"Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life."
"I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way."
"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."
"People are forever finding something wrong with you."
"Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved."
"To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few."
"My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money."
"I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when we had met M. Legrandin; instead, I went downstairs to the kitchen to ask about the menu for our dinner, which was of fresh interest to me daily, like the news in a paper, and excited me as might the programme of a coming festivity."
"Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices."
"The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other."
"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."
"I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence."
"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing."
"I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded."
"The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed."
"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."
"I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?"
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