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Quotes by French Authors
"The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth."
"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"
"These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: the men in Kentucky [neither] have zeal nor enlightenment cross over into Ohio in order to utilize their industry and to be able to exercise it without shame in Kentucky, masters make slaves work without being obliged to pay them, but they receive little fruit from their efforts, while the money that they would give to free workers would be recovered with interest from the value of their labors."
"They that have lived a single day have lived an age."
"Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film."
"If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their desperate state would not have gone unnoticed, their distress-signals would have been heard, and perhaps they would have been rescued by now. Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded in the process, and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfortunate and the infamous are grouped together, merged in a single, fateful world. They are les misA©rables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need for charity?"
"Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
"I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested."
"... sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving..."
"He is not admiring the colours of the earth and sky, the marks of the wind on the sea, the gilded clouds of twilight; they are the objects of his meditation."
"I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep."
"This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should be cause for despair, since there could very well be nothing at all behind the black curtain."
"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"
"At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won."
"Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,that soft summer morninground a turning in the path,the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones,its legs in the air like a woman in needburning its wedding poisonslike a fountain with its rhythmic sobs,I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound,but I touch my body in vain to find the wound.I am the vampire of my own heart,one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughterwho can no longer smile.Am I dead?I must be dead."
"Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer."
"What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do."
"It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me."
"But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent."
"One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time."
"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."
"We are not certain we are never certain."
"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"
"In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day."
"I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying."
"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom."
"The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity."
"Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."
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