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A jolt is necessary. Europe must reaffirm it values of freedom, solidarity, peace. The EU must be understood and controlled by its citizens. I will do everything to secure profound change rather than decline.


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FRANCOIS VILLON We were two and had but one heart between us
FRANCOIS VILLON In this world, you do your job, a good job, and that's what counts.
FRANCOIS NARS Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put ...
FRANCOIS JACOB Everything has to go well for him in a race now, so we'll have to see about the future. It's too soo...
FRANCOIS DOUMEN A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
FRANCOIS MITTERRAND I think less is more when it comes to make-up; this really helps achieve a lighter complexion. Heavy...
FRANCOIS NARS One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
FRANCOIS JACOB I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Mic...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT In America, when I first came here, they were used to wearing more make-up - thicker foundation, mor...
FRANCOIS NARS I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only se...
FRANCOIS SAGON Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children ...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you t...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear. All is grace. If the Eternal ...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be inte...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
FRANCOIS MAURIAC A young Saint - an old Devil, (mark this, an old saying, and as true a one as, a Young Whore an old ...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS A woman who hides behind a mask of makeup is still going to have to take it off at some point... and...
FRANCOIS NARS You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have.
FRANCOIS NARS You recognize but one rule of commerce; that is (to avail myself of your own terms) to allow free pa...
FRANCOIS QUESNAY purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT I am going to seek the great Perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on obje...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT Film lovers are sick people.
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT