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It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.


Georges Simenon

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GEORGES BRAQUE Truth exists; only lies are invented.
GEORGES BRAQUE Art is made to disturb. Science reassures.
GEORGES BRAQUE Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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GEORGES CUVIER Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
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GEORGES BATAILLE Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible...
GEORGES PEREC A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS Faith is not a thing which one ''loses',' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
GEORGES BERNANOS It was a rough one.
SEAN GEORGES Forse sapevano, un po' meglio degli altri, decifrare, o magari suscitare, questi segni favorevoli. L...
GEORGES PEREC I think the overall response was deplorable in terms of the timing and there's plenty of blame go ar...
GEORGES BENJAMIN This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to nam...
GEORGES PEREC Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.
GEORGES BATAILLE Uzunca bir süre kendine sığınaklar kurup yıktın: düzen ya da eylemsizlik, başıboş sürükl...
GEORGES PEREC Kayıtsızlık dili geçersiz kılıyor,işaretleri anlaşılmaz hale getiriyor.Sabırlısın ama be...
GEORGES PEREC Estás solo, y al estar solo, no has de mirar nunca la hora, no has de contar nunca los minutos. No ...
GEORGES PEREC Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét...
GEORGES PEREC Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le...
GEORGES PEREC Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ...
GEORGES PEREC A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of a...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU I am a believer and a conformist.
GEORGES ROUAULT Thus the tower was both disease and cure. It rendered him unfit for the world and it remedied the hu...
GEORGES RODENBACH Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a ...
GEORGES CUVIER A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not lim...
GEORGES CUVIER The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells ...
GEORGES CUVIER The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even cl...
GEORGES CUVIER In fact, ST was one of the first companies to initiate an environmental management program, which wa...
GEORGES AUGUSTE ST has long been a supporter of, and participant in international programs aimed at reducing greenho...
GEORGES AUGUSTE What often happens in a situation like this is people latch onto very concrete things, like buying v...
GEORGES BENJAMIN If we do all this work, and there's no pandemic, you still have 36,000 people die every year of seas...
GEORGES BENJAMIN A lot of the problems occur when people think everything's back to normal when in fact it isn't.
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