The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal.
One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
Find your happiness in yourself.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
I think the film gives you a picture of a person. It gives you a complete picture.
As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.
Woman is the heart of humanity. . . its grace, ornament, and solace.
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.