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The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.


Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

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GEORGES BERNANOS It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our ...
GEORGES ROUAULT Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
GEORGES ROUAULT Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU We slowed it down to our tempo, played our game. We just lost it in the overtime.
SEAN GEORGES I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
GEORGES SIMENON Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, ...
GEORGES CUVIER Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? ...
GEORGES BERNANOS And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your ...
GEORGES BERNANOS The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means
GEORGES BERNANOS Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible in...
GEORGES DUHAMEL By voluntarily participating in these programs, and by setting ambitious targets which are more aggr...
GEORGES AUGUSTE The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless...
GEORGES ROUAULT He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.
GEORGES POMPIDOU Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person....
GEORGES BATAILLE Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
GEORGES BRAQUE The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent trut...
GEORGES BATAILLE Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was s...
GEORGES CUVIER Few peek through these differing angles and many opt for the accustomed, the habitual, it is mostly ...
GEORGES BERTRAND A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't ...
GEORGES BERNANOS It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has no nightmares, who feels at peace with himself and e...
GEORGES SIMENON We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, aki...
GEORGES BATAILLE Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of...
GEORGES BATAILLE The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
GEORGES BERNANOS It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most pre...
GEORGES BERNANOS It's the first time there will be Asian Excellence Awards handed out for performances on TV, movies ...
BILL GEORGES I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, a...
GEORGES BIDAULT