An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...


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But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director....
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
There seems to be a new Palestinian and Israeli political reality, despite the many complications an...
MICHEL SABBAH
A new Israeli and Palestinian political landscape is taking shape.
MICHEL SABBAH
Many may ask how can we celebrate Christmas and be cheerful with the wall imprisoning us.
MICHEL SABBAH
The Palestinian people should regain their liberty and land with a state and a capital and the Israe...
MICHEL SABBAH
This wall must not exist. One day it will not exist.
MICHEL SABBAH
This position and the confiscation of lands have no reason at all. (The wall) doesn't benefit the se...
MICHEL SABBAH
The beginning of the Palestinian freedom is also a beginning of reconciliation between the two peopl...
MICHEL SABBAH
God has brought together Jews, Christians and Muslims to this holy land. No human power can change i...
MICHEL SABBAH
Many evils are surrounding us. The main one is the absence of peace,
MICHEL SABBAH
Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who...
MICHEL FABER
Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternali...
MICHEL FABER
The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pi...
MICHEL FABER
Impeachment is allowed under Brazil's Constitution.
MICHEL TEMER
Every time there's an institutional issue like impeachment, there's concern from the outside...
MICHEL TEMER
The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do le...
MICHEL FABER
The mines have claimed many victims on the allied side.
MICHEL DIATTA
When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to ...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany...
HARTMUT MICHEL
What we're seeing, I think, is a drive toward becoming a low-cost supplier.
ALAN MICHEL
Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideol...
CHARLES MICHEL
Desconfía de un confort excesivo: engendra irreflexión.
MICHEL FABER
A simple fuck is one thing, but let a man sleep with you just once and he thinks he can bring his do...
MICHEL FABER
La curiosidad es el nombre despectivo que los hombres dan a la sed de conocimiento que tienen las mu...
MICHEL FABER
But to be chemically fixed in time and passed hand to hand forever: that is a nakedness which can ne...
MICHEL FABER
Era un hombre de muchos planes, pero de poco fruto.
MICHEL FABER
Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anyth...
MICHEL FABER
Un solo día dedicado a cosas que no alimentan el espíritu es un día robado, mutilado y arrojado a...
MICHEL FABER
God, Agnes has decided, is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have ...
MICHEL FABER
William Rackham es lo que podríamos llamar un cristiano ateo supersticioso; es decir, cree en un Di...
MICHEL FABER
She sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and s...
MICHEL FABER
if she were its leader. Not that she ever would be: she was born to be a dissenter within a larger c...
MICHEL FABER
All along the street, keys rattle in key-holes as each shop's ornate metal clothing is stripped away...
MICHEL FABER
This is a street where the weaker souls crawl into bed as soon as the sun sets and lie awake listeni...
MICHEL FABER
...to her, all familiar responses smell of entrapment. Sharing an old joke, singing an old song - th...
MICHEL FABER
Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.
MICHEL FABER
Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed sin...
MICHEL FABER
A truly modern man, William Rackham is what might be called a superstitious atheist Christian; that ...
MICHEL FABER
God damn God and all His horrible filthy Creation.
MICHEL FABER
Sunlight is bad,' he wheezes. 'It's the exact same stuff as breeds maggots in wounded soldiers' legs...
MICHEL FABER
Yes, seven years old she was, when she finally plucked up the courage to ask her mother what Christm...
MICHEL FABER
But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a mome...
MICHEL FABER
Sugar leans her chin against the knuckles of the hand that holds the pen. Glistening on the page bet...
MICHEL FABER
Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?
MICHEL FABER
History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.
MICHEL FABER
Why are there such long words in the world, Miss?’ enquires Sophie, when the mineralogy lesson is ...
MICHEL FABER
Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.
MICHEL FABER
People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're...
MICHEL GONDRY
Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
It is not pretentious. It just gives you the feeling you could do it yourself.
MICHEL GONDRY
Eternal Sunshine
MICHEL GONDRY
When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
MICHEL GONDRY