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ANDRE GIDE Là où on s'aime, il ne fait jamais nuit.
GUILLAUME MUSSO Quant à moi, maintenant, j'ai fermé mon âme. Je ne dis plus à personne ce que je crois, ce que j...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét...
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY – Bah alors, c’est ce que je dis, avec la dotation qu’on a, ajouta Făneață puis il se leva...
CăLIN TORSAN Qu’est-ce qui peut seul être notre doctrine ? — Que personne ne donne à l’homme ses qualité...
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ERRI DE LUCA Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possèd...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Si tu entamais ces friandises ? Ah, les Dragées surprises de Bertie Crochue ! Un jour, quand j’é...
J.K. ROWLING As-tu déjà été amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnérable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et l...
NEIL GAIMAN We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.]
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Les gens créent de gros problèmes à partir de rien. Vous les créez car sans problème vous vous ...
DHARMA La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte. - Distance doesn't matter; it is ...
MARQUISE DU DEFFAND La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte. - Distance doesn't matter; it is ...
MARQUISE DU DEFFAND Oui, lorsqu'on surveille le temps, il passe très lentement. J'aime beaucoup la température, quatre...
THOMAS MANN The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il...
MADAME MARIE ANNE DU DEFFAND Nul homme n’est une île en soi. Nous faisons tous partie d’un continent et chaque fois que tu e...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Voilà bien la famille : même celui qui n'a pas sa place dans le monde, qui n'est ni célèbre ni r...
ROBERT MUSIL tout est dans la nature si une personne essaye de vous changer ses quel ne vous aime pas vraiment de...
MARTY J'ai consulté mon téléphone: je n'avais aucun message. C'est à cela que servent les téléphones...
DAVID FOENKINOS Qui cherche et ne saisit pas ce qui s'offre ne le reverra jamais plus.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Rien n’est plus trompeur qu’une photo : on croit fixer un moment heureux pour l’éternité al...
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JORGE LUIS BORGES Il est très bien de ne pas faire du mal. Mais c'est très mal de ne pas faire du bien
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FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND J'ai encore un vif souvenir de Freud me disant : "Mon cher Jung, promettez-moi de ne jamais abandonn...
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EDGAR DEGAS He sees only night, and hears only silence. [Fr., Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence....
JACQUES DELILLE (JAQUES DELISLE) En ce moment, je me sépare tant soit peu de moi-même et vais à la rencontre de la personne qui s'...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Ce qu'il voyait dépasser de sa manche ressemblait à un gros gant en caoutchouc, couleur chair. Il ...
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CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Le combat narcissique durerait aussi longtemps que la sociabilité elle-même, il en serait l'ultime...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Vous avez cru jusqu'à ce jour qu'il y avait des tyrans ! Eh bien vous vous êtes trompés, il n'y a...
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE La raison nous impose des limites bien trop étroites et nous invite à ne vivre que le connu - enco...
C.G. JUNG Les gens qui ont besoin de plus qu une valise ne sont pas de vrais voyageurs, ce sont des touristes.
IRA LEVIN Even Jesus, three days, died. Who is strong doesn't make the strong. (Même Jésus, trois jours, est...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Je t'aime Roza...je serais là pour toi. Je ne laisserais jamais rien t'arriver.
Et je ne laiss...
RICHELLE MEAD La vie est un voyage solitaire et, être mariée n'y change rien. D'ailleurs je pense que le fait de...
AGATHE COLOMBIER HOCHBERG On meurt toujours trop tôt ― ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée: le trait est t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE On ne va jamais si loin que lorsque l'on ne sait pas où l'on va.
ANTOINE RIVAROL Regardez mon enfant, voyez l'éclat de ses boucles folles et son sourire pareil à un vol de papillo...
JODI PICOULT Il est également vrai qu'un échange est une transaction dans laquelle les deux contractants gagnen...
ANTOINE DESTUTT DE TRACY 'Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous ...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE L'éducation conventionnelle ne nous permet d'atteindre que très difficilement à une pensée indé...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Ce qui m'intéresse, c'est de savoir qui paie les Rédempteurs, pas de me débarrasser d'une poigné...
GABRIEL KATZ Une catastrophe, en général et quelle que soit sa nature, s'annonce avec fracas, a son lot de sign...
LUCAS VALLERIE - Toi et ta grande cause... (Ignorant le troubadour, le sorceleur avança en titubant.) Ta grande ca...
ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI - Toi et ta grande cause... (Ignorant le troubadour, le sorceleur avança en titubant.) Ta grande ca...
ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI Si nous avons accordé à l'Amérique le privilège de l'histoire cumulative, n'est-ce pas, en effet...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Les hommes ont plus de timidité dans l'esprit que dans le cœur ; et les esclaves volontaires font ...
CHARLES PINOT DUCLOS Du reste, la majorité des orientalistes ne sont et ne veulent être que des érudits ; tant qu’il...
RENé GUéNON Corto à lui même: Ce serait bon de vivre dans une fable.
Bouche Dorée à Corto: Oh oui!… M...
HUGO PRATT Le parti national-socialiste avait fait un fameux cadeau à ces SS-là : ils pouvaient marcher au co...
THOMAS KENEALLY Nul n'est plus chanceux que celui qui croit à sa chance.
PROVERBE ALLEMAND You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt. [Fr., Vous...
SIR JOHN DENHAM Moi qui éprouve, comme chacun, le besoin d’être reconnu, je me sens pur en toi et vais à toi. J...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Je suis vivant. Et pendant que je mange, je ne fais rien d'autre que manger. Quand je marcherai, je ...
PAULO COELHO Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la mé...
VOLTAIRE Ni le passé, ni l’avenir ne peuvent nous accabler, puisque l’un n’existe plus et que l’autr...
ALAIN Comprendre... Vous n'avez que ce mot-là à la bouche, tous, depuis que je suis toute petite. Il fal...
JEAN ANOUILH Je ne connais pas la moitié d'entre vous autant que je le voudrais. Et j'aime moins de la moitié d...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Ne demandez rien et n'attendez rien donnez et partager en abondance  ne soyez pas un mendiant, soye...
SANTIDARMA Les gens ne connaissent pas leur bonheur... mais celui des autres ne leur échappe pas
PIERRE DANINOS Il n'y a que deux ou trois crimes à faire dans le monde, dit Curval, et, ceux-là faits, tout est d...
MARQUIS DE SADE Tu joues ? Oui, c'est ça, tu joues, tu t'amuses avec les gens qui t'entourent, c'est très clair à...
LAURENT BETTONI Joseph
Voilà c'que c'est, mon vieux Joseph
Que d'avoir pris la plus jolie
Par...
GEORGES MOUSTAKI Ce monde, tel qu'il est fait, n'est pas supportable. J'ai donc besoin de la lune, ou du bonheur, ou ...
ALBERT CAMUS On paie mal un maître en ne restant toujours que l'élève.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point.
BLAISE PASCAL Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir etre seul.
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE Un bon mot ne prouve rien.
VOLTAIRE I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Les stoïciens ont voulu soutenir que nos passions dépendent entièrement de notre volonté, et que...
BARUCH SPINOZA Et j'emmerde tous les gens bien-pensants qui estiment qu'un homme et une femme ne peuvent se limiter...
DAN DASTIER Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodl...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Je ne veux pas que tu aimes "ça en moi", je veux que tu aimes "moi tout entier".
MATHIAS MALZIEU Le travail ne représentait qu'ennui pour moi, je détestais aller au bureau. Je me sentais vraiment...
HARUKI MURAKAMI L'idée préconçue entrave et endommage la libre et pleine manifestation de la vie psychique, que j...
C.G. JUNG Ces enfants mûrissent trop tôt parce que, ayant été rendus sensibles aux malheurs, c'est ce qu'i...
BORIS CYRULNIK Vous avez déjà perdu quelqu'un de proche? [...] Vous n'avez jamais l'impression que ces êtres-là...
LAURENT GAUDé Rien n'est plus troublant que les mouvements incessants de ce qui semble immobile. p214 (Minuit)
GILLES DELEUZE Dans la nature rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd, tout change.

In nature nothing i...
ANTOINE LAVOISIER Nous avons déjà parlé de la notion temporelle propre à chaque saison, l'été étant l'époque o...
MARIE-CLAIRE DOLGHIN-LOYER Sans doute te demandes-tu si je ne suis pas aigri de n'en avoir écrit aucun. Eh bien, non! Mon tale...
ALEXANDRE JARDIN Je choisis des mots simples et concrets... J'essaie de faire des phrases courtes et j'évite les inv...
JACQUES POULIN Le vin est la gaieté, dit-on ; comment cet océan de vin qui submerge la commune de Bercy n’égay...
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EDMUND BURKE Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
EDMUND BURKE I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
EDMUND BURKE That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught...
EDMUND BURKE It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand...
EDMUND BURKE The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
EDMUND BURKE There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
EDMUND BURKE Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it...
EDMUND BURKE Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
EDMUND BURKE Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
EDMUND BURKE But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
EDMUND BURKE What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of th...
EDMUND BURKE The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic e...
EDMUND BURKE The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.
EDMUND BURKE Calamity is man's true touchstone
EDMUND BURKE Illustrious Predecessor.
EDMUND BURKE Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, ...
EDMUND BURKE When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifi...
EDMUND BURKE Falsehood is a perennial spring.
EDMUND BURKE All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for...
EDMUND BURKE All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
EDMUND BURKE Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; i...
EDMUND BURKE Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
EDMUND BURKE Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
EDMUND BURKE It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to...
EDMUND BURKE The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKE Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
EDMUND BURKE The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upo...
EDMUND BURKE All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
EDMUND BURKE To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
EDMUND BURKE The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...
EDMUND BURKE The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
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