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Quotes by French Authors
"Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her."
"How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is."
"I have a name, I have to take advantage of it."
"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl."
"Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere."
"I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make."
"The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."
"Imagination rules the world."
"Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones."
"I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat..."
"The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation."
"To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed."
"Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late."
"Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand."
"It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind."
"Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests."
"I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed."
"People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life."
"Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."
"This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market."
"Nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents."
"As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind."
"It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci."
"The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple."
"The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself."
"I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration."
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