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A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.


Francois Mitterrand

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FRANCOIS RABELAIS Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on obje...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT Film lovers are sick people.
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exc...
FRANCOIS FTNELON Good talkers are only found in Paris.
FRANCOIS VILLON Blonde or brunette, this rhyme applies, happy is he who knows them not
FRANCOIS VILLON The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he
FRANCOIS RABELAIS The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, whe...
FRANCOIS FENELON An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a do...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work: it will collapse, and it will... undo...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years ol...
FRANCOIS ARNAUD Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue
FRANCOIS RABELAIS I drink no more than a sponge
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Everything comes in time to those who can wait
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS A bellyful is a bellyful
FRANCOIS RABELAIS I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could
FRANCOIS RABELAIS He has complicated things rather than making them simpler.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE I think when you are interior minister and number two in the government, you should master your own ...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE Being selfish only benefits a few. Considering others benefits all of mankind.
TERRAINE FRANCOIS Eighty percent or so are post-genocide recruits.
FRANCOIS GRIGNON A habit does not a monk make.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS It allowed nationalists ... to transform the SNCM problem into a Corsican problem.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE Social media allows us to behave in ways that we are hardwired for in the first place - as humans. W...
FRANCOIS GOSSIEAUX I know everything except myself
FRANCOIS VILLON More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity
FRANCOIS GAUTIER Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having o...
FRANCOIS FENELON