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Quotes by French Authors
"If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I."
"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
"It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not."
"One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness."
"We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed."
"Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking."
"This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting."
"Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn't come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words "bliss, "passion, and "rapture - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books."
"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."
"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content."
"The beautiful is always bizarre."
"I'm doing what I have to do. I want everyone to know that I love them."
"Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words."
"Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest " disdain for beauty, execration of literature. I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it."
"In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived."
"But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream."
"These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while."
"There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise."
"Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting."
"Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure."
"The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only."
"Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
"So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own."
"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."
"God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself."
"I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take."
"It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others."
"I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work."
"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."
"My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them."
"We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people."
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