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Quotes by French Authors
"Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women."
"There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline."
"There have been major disagreements within the European Union."
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."
"I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience."
"My love, do you recall the object which we saw,That fair, sweet, summer morn!At a turn in the path a foul carcassOn a gravel strewn bed,Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman,Burning and dripping with poisons,Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant wayIts belly, swollen with gases."
"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."
"You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you."
"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
"For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave."
"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
"When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game."
"Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult."
"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer."
"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."
"I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it."
"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."
"But the mind is here accepted not for the soul, but for that which is the more excellent in the soul."
"This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted."
"Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future."
"It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act."
"The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation."
"I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity."
"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
"I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die."
"In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside."
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