French
Novelist
French Novelist
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign.