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Quotes by French Authors
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality."
"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science."
"I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone."
"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas."
"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
"I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them."
"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary."
"Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event."
"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."
"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
"A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence."
"Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly."
"I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom."
"We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies."
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
"Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling."
"The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound."
"A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin."
"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress."
"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."
"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor."
"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory."
"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."
"The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all."
"I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day."
"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."
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