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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
André Gide
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The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
Jules Verne
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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
Colette
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You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry
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It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
Georges Courteline
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We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.
Alfred Jarry
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
Stendhal
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I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.
François Mauriac
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Beautiful... as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.
Comte de Lautréamont
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
Victor Hugo
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
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Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
Arthur Adamov
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The physician has a sacred mission on earth; and to fulfill it he begins at the source of life, and goes down to the mysterious darkness of the tomb.
Alexandre Dumas
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In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.
Jean Cocteau
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There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.
Marcel Proust
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An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.
Albert Memmi
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He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.
Irène Némirovsky
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The politician is an acrobat; he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.
Maurice Barrès
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In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
Georges Duhamel
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We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.
David Foenkinos
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Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone....
Saint-John Perse
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Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal differs so from yours that I would be wasting my time in trying to explain where my inclination drives me.
Dominique Fernandez
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In this world, you must be a bit too kind in order to be kind enough.
Pierre de Marivaux
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They flattered the ambitious and all the ills came gradually to a head. Murder drowning everything was allowed. Intriguers monopolised all the offices. Good men could only mutter for if they spoke they were lost. Hatred vengeance everything was permitted and nobody dared open his mouth...
Jacques-Louis Ménétra
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