French Quotes

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Old age is a woman's hell.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Winning tastes good.

To win you have to risk loss.