Georges Duhamel Short Quotes

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Civilization: if it is not in man's heart—well, then, it is nowhere.

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For many people in the future, radio will take the place of an inner life.

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A book exhales a subtle odor of spirituality throughout the place it adorns.

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It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

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We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

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I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

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Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

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… the cinema and the radio and the effect they have had in weakening the impulse to spiritual effort

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I hold that the novelist is the historian of the present, just as the historian is the novelist of the past.

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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.

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The grief he had suppressed for months overflowed, or rather, rushed out in desperate, heartrending lamentations.

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But lately, Death was the cruel stranger, the stealthy-footed visitor.... Now, it is the romping dog of the house.

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The burden of experience is a sorrowful one. It is always sorrowful to have sufficient memory to discern the future.

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What a teacher imparts by word of mouth is nothing in comparison with what he teaches us to get for ourselves from books.

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The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.

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Aristocracy of the mind … is the only true aristocracy in my opinion. It is the essence, the very life of a well-built society.

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When I say, Beware of the radio if you want to improve your mind, … I am warning the public against their worst enemy, conformity.

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Is it possible to create a maintain a true culture, a strong and flourishing culture, through the medium of pictoral and oral apparatus?

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Just as we say listening and hearing, looking and seeing, so we ought to have two expressions to distinguish active reading from passive.

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In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a steam-engine alongside the recipes for daily living—the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.

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If the public gets out of the habit of reading they will not come back to it. We shall enter a new phase of our history from which there is no turning back.

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Books are the friends of solitude. They develop individuality and freedom. In solitary reading a man who is seeking himself has some chance of finding himself.

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Culture is at once the expression and the reward of an effort, and any system of civilization which tends to relax effort will suffer a corresponding depreciation of culture.

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Radio and cinema are daily playing a more and more important part, not only in the amusements of the twentieth-century man but also in the visible formation of his character.

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