Author Nationality

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Nationality : French

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Nationality : French

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Nationality : French

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Nationality : French

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Nationality : French

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Nationality : French

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Nationality : French

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Nationality : French

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Nationality : French

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Nationality : French