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Quotes by French Authors
"The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek."
"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."
"To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches."
"I was convinced that I would be, that I was already, one in a million."
"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
"When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide."
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."
"It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill."
"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."
"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."
"A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man."
"We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina."
"Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?"
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
"There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart."
"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."
"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
"We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting."
"I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals."
"All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable."
"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."
"My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town."
"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies."
"Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants."
"You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting."
"It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful."
"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness."
"The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell."
"Beauty is unbearable drives us to despair offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
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