Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to squandering without reciprocation.


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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
Oh to be seventy again.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.
GEORGES POMPIDOU
The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.
GEORGES BERNANOS
Hope is a risk that must be run
GEORGES BERNANOS
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
GEORGES BRAQUE
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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.
GEORGES BRAQUE
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry
GEORGES BRAQUE
Our offense is going to be much slower than we predicted.
SEAN GEORGES
I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
GEORGES SIMENON
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
GEORGES BIDAULT
If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.
GEORGES BIDAULT
To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.
GEORGES CANGUILHEM
The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't...
GEORGES SIMENON
Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, wi...
GEORGES RODENBACH
He mostly preached in the evening, when the college
church was already shrouded in shadow. And...
GEORGES RODENBACH
Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refus...
GEORGES BIZET
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...
GEORGES BIZET
It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved the...
GEORGES CUVIER
Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
GEORGES ROUAULT
Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
GEORGES CARPENTIER
sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
GEORGES DUHAMEL
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 night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around...
GEORGES SIMENON
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
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