Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.
Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.
Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a' son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time. ) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.
The idea will be to find of focus on crime and issues where there`s not a lot of - where Donald Trump can kind of get people`s emotions.
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.