A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.


Jean Francois Lyotard

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The extremists wanted to divide France; it came together.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhanc...
FRANCOIS NARS
Islamist terrorism has declared war against us, against France, Europe, the entire world.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to anno...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it&...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal ...
FRANCOIS LELORD
Frugality is for the vulgar.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Protocol is everything.
FRANCOIS GIULIANI
My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were ve...
FRANCOIS NARS
Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of ...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
I've always loved the way movie stars in the Forties looked when they were off set. Shot poolsid...
FRANCOIS NARS
My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't the...
FRANCOIS PINAULT
But where are the snows of yesteryear?
FRANCOIS VILLON
Ah God! Had I but studied in the days of my foolish youth
FRANCOIS VILLON
My days are gone a-wandering.
FRANCOIS VILLON
Brother humans who live after us, do not harden your hearts against us.
FRANCOIS VILLON
We were two and had but one heart between us
FRANCOIS VILLON
I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
In this world, you do your job, a good job, and that's what counts.
FRANCOIS NARS
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
We need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringi...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, ...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, P...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of ...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put ...
FRANCOIS JACOB
Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post d...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the worl...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe&...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
Everything has to go well for him in a race now, so we'll have to see about the future. It's too soo...
FRANCOIS DOUMEN
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
FRANCOIS MITTERRAND
If Europe does not advance, it will fall or even be wiped out from the world map... My duty is to br...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
I think less is more when it comes to make-up; this really helps achieve a lighter complexion. Heavy...
FRANCOIS NARS
One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
FRANCOIS JACOB
I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Mic...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT
The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
In America, when I first came here, they were used to wearing more make-up - thicker foundation, mor...
FRANCOIS NARS
I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only se...
FRANCOIS SAGON
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children ...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC
Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you t...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC
We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear. All is grace. If the Eternal ...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC