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Quotes by French Authors
"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach."
"The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed."
"The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime."
"To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady."
"In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories."
"Nature can counsel nothing but crime."
"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."
"The words of the world want to make sentences."
"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life."
"Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write."
"Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up."
"Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one's fellow man, or merely say evil of one's neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman."
"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."
"If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil."
"The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character."
"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."
"It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes."
"What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers."
"My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living."
"There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature."
"The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image."
"I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk."
"Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody."
"I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people."
"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."
"Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age."
"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."
"The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute."
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