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Quotes by French Authors
"First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality."
"It is a mistake," LabruyA re tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune."
"At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves."
"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."
"My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection."
"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"
"For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation."
"The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second."
"People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good."
"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."
"There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation."
"Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries."
"How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?"
"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
"The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little."
"The first step towards philosophy is incredulity."
"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."
"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."
"You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not."
"It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling."
"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."
"I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive."
"Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge."
"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same."
"We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human."
"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest."
"There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought."
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