I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.


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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
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be inte...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
FRANCOIS MAURIAC
A young Saint - an old Devil, (mark this, an old saying, and as true a one as, a Young Whore an old ...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
A woman who hides behind a mask of makeup is still going to have to take it off at some point... and...
FRANCOIS NARS
You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have.
FRANCOIS NARS
You recognize but one rule of commerce; that is (to avail myself of your own terms) to allow free pa...
FRANCOIS QUESNAY
This is an unquestionable retreat. It is a grand success for the young and an impressive victory for...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
I am going to seek the great Perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on obje...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT
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