Quotes
"She didn't know it was impossible, so she did it."
Anonymous
" The future is not what will happen, but what we will do »
Henry BERGSON
" She had always had the power to influence the future in her own way, in order to build it and not suffer it. »
Christian SIGNOL, They Dreamed of Sundays, 2008
" The possibility of living begins in the gaze of the other. »
Michel Houellebecq, Elementary particles, 1998
“…I love you. Everyone says and repeats” I love you ". Do you remember the market? You have to be careful with the words. Do not repeat them over and over again. Nor use them indiscriminately, for each other, by telling lies. Otherwise, the words wear out. And sometimes it's too late to save them."
Erik Orsenna, Grammar is a Sweet Song, 2001
“Aïssata will know then: for me, even today, yellow is like the sun warming the skin, green like the scent of wet grass in the morning, blue like the ocean when you are in front .
And black is like the softness of her face at my fingertips. »
Thierry LENAIN & Philippe POIRIER,
Out of Sight, Close to Heart, 1997
(Original text; Aissata , 1991)
" Tourism has become so conventional that travel no longer knows what to do with it, which aspires to non-conformity, to leave its tracks. Travel inspires an existence that leaves to find other existential motives elsewhere, and for that reason abandons routines. The traveler prefers the ordinary of others to his own. From then on, thrown into the immensity of the world, he picks the extraordinary from the ordinary. »
Rodolphe Christin, Passing the terminals - on the thread of the journey, 2010
" From Rudy they got nothing. A perfect dunce, pure, unalterable, honest, he opposed them with absolute resistance. He became the hero of this other war, that of the pupils against the masters. And the disciplinary sanctions fell on him so often that his haggard and disheveled head was haloed with an additional merit. : the palm of martyrdom. »
Eric-Emmanuel SCHMITT, Noah's Child , 2004
“Of the war, people today know the music, but not the lyrics. »
Sorj CHALANDON, The legend of our fathers , 2009
" They weren't used to complaining but only to bend their backs in the storms, before finding the strength to straighten up. »
Christian SIGNOL, They Dreamed of Sundays, 2008
" That's what is moving in love : it is we who make its truth. »
Simone de Beauvoir, The blood of others 1945
" We now know that the media spread unconsciousness as surely as light spreads darkness. ; the more powerful the spotlight, the thicker the shadow. »
Amin MAALOUF, The first century after Beatrice , 2015
" Dramas are to history what words are to thought, you never know if they shape it or just reflect it. »
Amin MAALOUF, The first century after Beatrice , 2015