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Quotes by French Authors
"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."
"Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization."
"Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime."
"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
"To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know."
"We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements."
"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."
"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."
"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother."
"The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck."
"I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction."
"You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport."
"The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible."
"A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others."
"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us."
"Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it."
"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."
"One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true."
"You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret."
"I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished."
"I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different."
"Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented."
"The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing."
"By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."
"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god."
"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."
"Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal."
"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you."
"Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone."
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