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Quotes by French Authors
"This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims."
"I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts."
"Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized."
"Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone."
"I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together."
"When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again."
"Contact with the world, with which I have been steadily rubbing shoulders now for fourteen months, makes me feel more and more like returning to my shell. I hate the crowd, the herd. It seems to me always atrociously stupid or vile."
"It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth."
"I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?"
"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."
"Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say."
"At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to."
"The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions."
"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
"One half of my life has put the other half in the grave."
"A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts."
"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"
"I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'."
"I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished."
"Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit."
"There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter."
"Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father."
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest - whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories - comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer."
"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies."
"A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss."
"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."
"We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty."
"I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme."
"With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle!" He added with a pause: "Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators."
"Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live."
"I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment."
"The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does."
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