Quotes by french authors

I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning. Olga Kurylenko

Failure Beginning Everything See Divorce End Story

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. Paul Cezanne

Art Personality Seductive About Most Himself Artist Thing

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Paul Gauguin

Life Dreams Revenge Being

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Universe Joint Observed Observer Know Product

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You Together Will Other Recreate Exist Forever After Each Suffer

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Truth Good Me Fear Independence Sacrifice Holding Conviction Believe Else Everything Everything Else One Thing Finer About Oneself Points Envisage Opinions Intellectual Persecution Questions End Than May Which Less Many Thing

As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights. Rene Cassin

Life Work Rights Human Rights Every Society Economic Individual Participation Cultural List Human Social Declaration Certain Full Right Number Incorporated

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. Rene Descartes

Thoughts Power Own Nothing Our Except Absolutely

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. Romain Rolland

Life Moving On Mistake Mistakes Never Makes Loved

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. Simone Weil

Great Reality Detached Someone Only Attachment Attained Who Illusions

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. Simone Weil

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. Simone de Beauvoir

Work Truth World Men Own Confuse Absolute Point Point Of View Absolute Truth Like Itself Representation Which View Describe

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. Victor Hugo

Strength Words Strong Cause Weak Bitter Indicate

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

Happiness Life Conviction Ourselves Rather Spite Supreme Loved

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo

Time Invasion Idea Come Armies Whose Resisted

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. Voltaire

Tyrant Laws Knows His Sovereign Caprice Who

I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens. Alain Ducasse

Trust Somebody Rarely Disappointed Like Being Happens Fortunately

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. Albert Camus

World Occasion Understand Order Turn Away

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. Albert Camus

People Some People Other Some Talk While Sleep

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. Albert Camus

Government Sometimes Nothing Definition More Policy Conscience

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. Albert Camus

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. Albert Camus

Hope Fool Coward He Condition Human Human Condition Who

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides. Andre Malraux

Man Hides He Thinks