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1461 French Quotes

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Literature Proclaiming Careful Conceal
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The world isn't a sad place, it's just big

World Sad Place Big
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art Attracts Reveals Secret
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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Truth Terror Moral Idea
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It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to

Where Take Things
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Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

Poetry Game Loser
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What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

Greatest Ambition Life Die
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A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Story Beginning End Order
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Life begins on the other side of despair.

Life Begins Other side Despair
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life Moment Lose Eternal
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Lost Battle Thinks
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man Free World Responsible
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

We Act Passion Feel
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We do not judge the people we love.

We Judge People Love
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Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Words Treacherous Powerful Think
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Literature Worth Hour Trouble
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Man Responsible Nature Choices
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Politics Science Demonstrate Wrong
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Commitment is an act, not a word.
Commitment Act Word
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There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Day Left Dawn Dusk
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Afraid Son Honest Citizen
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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Death Mystery Life Suspenseful
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The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

Life Had Nothing Important
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Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

Films Way Acting Life
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I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Success Harmful People Talent
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You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

Wreck Sick Life Health
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Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Age Protect Love You
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The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

Cliche Life Mountain Top
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Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Knowing Live Death Life
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Life doesn't end at 30.

Life End
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Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

People Addicts Act Exist
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Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

Children Beautiful Imbeciles Vulgar
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Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
Life Accomplishment Moment Meaning
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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Live Poer Terror Art
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If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

Trapped Idea Image World
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All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Vitamins Death Bay Deterioration
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People's opinions don't interfere with me.

People's Opinions Interfere Me
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Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Ethical Moral People Truth
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent

Fiction Autobiographical Author Talent
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To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Give Love Pain Feeling
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Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

Beauty Sex Human being Emerge
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I have no doubt who I am.

I Doubt Who
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If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

Extremely Painfully Frightened Age
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What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change

Woman Age World Changing
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Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

Pretty People Worry Aging
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One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
Give up Importance People You
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It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Idiotic Life Death Say
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My aim in life is not to judge.

Aim Life Judge
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It's dangerous to assert oneself.

Dangerous Assert Oneself
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I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

I Feel Guilt Wish
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