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Quotes by French Authors
"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest."
"And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We were forced to despair. We were cut off from the world because to each moment clung a whole mass of mortal images. For five years the earth has not seen a single morning without death agonies, a single evening without prisons, a noon without slaughter."
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
"Naturally, love's the most distant possibility."
"...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?"
"One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace."
"A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human."
"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing."
"To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny."
"Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols."
"I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important."
"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."
"Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools."
"It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope."
"The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline."
"Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it."
"The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around."
"When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself."
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
"If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave."
"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."
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