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Quotes by French Authors
"But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially."
"I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery."
"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."
"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics."
"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
"We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years."
"He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign."
"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."
"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."
"The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens."
"No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart."
"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."
"Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power."
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
"The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience."
"As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more."
"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."
"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."
"One can go to war alone, butyou can't build peace alone."
"Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films."
"A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone."
"I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video."
"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."
"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."
"The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement."
"Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression."
"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."
"Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive."
"The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others."
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