French Quotes

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

Evolution is a tinkerer.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system.

Many models do yoga, but I find it boring. I'd rather be outdoors having fun.

I was crazy about Elle Macpherson. She modeled, acted and did everything. She was a huge example for me.

I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.

I eat healthy, and I eat a lot.

I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

We have not the time to take our time.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

Living is abnormal.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.