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We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.


Georges Duhamel

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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 I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acce...
GEORGES BATAILLE 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 My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...
GEORGES BATAILLE 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 Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to resto...
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 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