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At lunchtime, our kitchen was like a mini restaurant: my grandmother and mother had to cook for as many as 25 people - extended family plus 10 employees. We ate a lot of cabbage and a lot of potatoes.


Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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GEORGES BRAQUE Art is made to disturb. Science reassures.
GEORGES BRAQUE Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
GEORGES BRAQUE Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry
GEORGES BRAQUE Our offense is going to be much slower than we predicted.
SEAN GEORGES Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectu...
GEORGES BATAILLE I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
GEORGES SIMENON If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar di...
GEORGES BATAILLE The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
GEORGES BIDAULT If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.
GEORGES BIDAULT To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.
GEORGES CANGUILHEM The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't...
GEORGES SIMENON Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, wi...
GEORGES RODENBACH I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acce...
GEORGES BATAILLE He mostly preached in the evening, when the college
church was already shrouded in shadow. And...
GEORGES RODENBACH Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refus...
GEORGES BIZET Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...
GEORGES BIZET My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...
GEORGES BATAILLE It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved the...
GEORGES CUVIER Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
GEORGES ROUAULT Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
GEORGES CARPENTIER sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
GEORGES DUHAMEL Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to resto...
GEORGES BATAILLE Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible...
GEORGES PEREC A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS Faith is not a thing which one ''loses',' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
GEORGES BERNANOS It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around...
GEORGES SIMENON It was a rough one.
SEAN GEORGES Forse sapevano, un po' meglio degli altri, decifrare, o magari suscitare, questi segni favorevoli. L...
GEORGES PEREC I think the overall response was deplorable in terms of the timing and there's plenty of blame go ar...
GEORGES BENJAMIN This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to nam...
GEORGES PEREC Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.
GEORGES BATAILLE Uzunca bir süre kendine sığınaklar kurup yıktın: düzen ya da eylemsizlik, başıboş sürükl...
GEORGES PEREC Kayıtsızlık dili geçersiz kılıyor,işaretleri anlaşılmaz hale getiriyor.Sabırlısın ama be...
GEORGES PEREC