La vie est une farce, apprends à rire.
Marie-Claire Blais
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AGATHE COLOMBIER HOCHBERG On dit père grec, mère suisse-française... On me demande, mais alors, quelle est votre patrie? Je...
GEORGES HALDAS La tolérance n'est pas une position contemplative, dispensant les indulgences à ce qui fut ou à c...
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KRISTEVEN MOOTIEN Une condamnation de la vie de la part du vivant n’est finalement que le symptôme d’une espèce ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est p...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE « La seule voie par laquelle descend la lumière est : Donner. Donner avec joie, celui qui vit un...
GITTA MALLASZ La vie est la seule carrière qui m'intéresse.
ERIK ORSENNA Personne n'est capable réellement de penser à personne, fût-ce dans le pire des malheurs. Car pen...
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C.G. JUNG En admettant que l’on ait compris ce qu’il y a de sacrilège dans un pareil soulèvement contre ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Quant à nous, nous respectons çà et là et nous épargnons partout le passé, pourvu qu'il consen...
VICTOR HUGO La vie est grande, bonne, passionnante
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MATTHIEU RICARD Gauvin reprit :
-Et la femme? qu'en faites-vous?
Cimourdain répondit:
-Ce qu'elle es...
VICTOR HUGO Une vie est réussie quand elle n’est faite que de verbes d’action.
SYLVAIN TESSON Le premier symbole où nous reconnaissons l'humanité dans ses vestiges est la sépulture, et le tru...
JACQUES LACAN L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO Dans une vie de bohème
on peut faire de poème.
Comment serait la vie
sans la douce...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Si, bien avant la puberté, et parfois même dès sa toute petite enfance, elle nous apparaît déj�...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR L'éducation conventionnelle ne nous permet d'atteindre que très difficilement à une pensée indé...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Reprenant une goulée de cervoise, le capitaine s’essuya les lèvres avec sa manche, se pencha ver...
CYRILLE MENDES La solitude à deux est l'enfer consenti.
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Une perception élargie, telle est la finalité de l'art.
GILLES DELEUZE On meurt toujours trop tôt ― ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée: le trait est t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO La seule chance de survie, lorsqu'on est sincèrement épris, consiste à dissimuler à la femme qu'...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible...
GEORGES PEREC À s'accorder tant d'importance à soi-même, à s'agiter et à se débattre, on passe à côté de ...
ETTY HILLESUM A une époque de sa vie, il y avait de cela de nombreuses années, elle avait perdu sa foi en Dieu. ...
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possèd...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ C’est ainsi que, par exemple, l’idée de l’Infini, qui est en réalité la plus positive de to...
RENé GUéNON N'ayez jamais peur de la vie, n'ayez jamais peur de l'aventure, faites confiance au hasard, à la ch...
HENRY DE MONFREID Le développement des connaissances préhistoriques et archéologiques tend à étaler dans l'espace...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique: savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur et accélérer quand même...
FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER Il parvint à la reconnaitre au milieu du tumulte et, à travers les larmes de sa douleur irrémédi...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Des jugements, des appréciations de la vie, pour ou contre, ne peuvent, en dernière instance, jama...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
[Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esp...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Vivre sans lecture c'est dangereux, il faut se contenter de la vie, ça peut amener à prendre des r...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Voilà bien la famille : même celui qui n'a pas sa place dans le monde, qui n'est ni célèbre ni r...
ROBERT MUSIL Les essuie-glaces, d'un dynamisme consternant pour toute personne fatiguée, dégageaient la flotte ...
FRéDéRIC H. FAJARDIE La variété des manifestations de la vie suffit à l'éblouissement. Il n’y a qu'à jeter l’oei...
SYLVAIN TESSON Mais l'Amour vaut mieux que la Vie, et qu'est-ce que le cœur d'un oiseau à côté d'un cœur d'hom...
OSCAR WILDE Even artificial flowers have a vase. Life is Beautiful. (Même les fleurs artificielles - Ont un vas...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE et de fines rides d'expression lui encadrent la bouche, parenthèses renfermant toute une vie de mot...
JODI PICOULT France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads.
[Fr., La France est une monarchie absolue, te...
UNKNOWN En effet, lorsque l'époque où un homme de talent est obligé de vivre est plate et bête, l'artist...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS Dans les jours d'après nous distribuerons tes soixante-dix-sept peluches, une par une ou deux par d...
SOPHIE DAULL tout est dans la nature si une personne essaye de vous changer ses quel ne vous aime pas vraiment de...
MARTY L'anthropologie n'est ni une religion à laquelle on adhère, ni une maladie qu'on contracte. Elle e...
JEAN COPANS L'objectivité, vécue dans ce rêve et dans ces visions, relève de l'individuation accomplie. Elle...
C.G. JUNG Tel fut aussi le cas d'un Nietzsche, génie volcanique s'il en est ; ici encore - mais d'une façon ...
FRITHJOF SCHUON [...] Sans entrer encore dans la question de la « composition du continu », on voit donc que le no...
RENé GUéNON J'ai perdu ma force et ma vie,
Et mes amis et ma gaieté;
J'ai perdu jusqu'à la fierté ALFRED DE MUSSET La vie humaine est limitée, mais je voudrais vivre éternellement – Human life is limited but I w...
RICHARD T. KELLY Je me rappelais que mon père avait coutume de dire que le but de la vie c'est de se préparer à re...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Caustique ? Vous voulez dire : méchant ? Oui, je suis un peu méchant, dit Settembrini. Mon regret ...
THOMAS MANN Il défendait une théorie : les couples ne fréquentent pas les célibataires. D'abord parce que le...
LAURENT BETTONI La monnaie est souvent mythifiée, conçue comme magique et obscure. Son ambivalence fondamentale fa...
EMMANUEL TODD Vous pensiez que l'innocence suffirait à vous délivrer des filets d'un système juridique dont nou...
PAULO COELHO Peut-on juger une vie sur un seul acte ?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE À l’époque primordiale, l’homme était, en lui-même, parfaitement équilibré quant au compl�...
RENé GUéNON Il ne savait pas encore s'il souffrait parce qu'il suivait une pente et que l'avenir venait à lui s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Comment pouvaient-ils accepter que l'histoire de leur vie s'efface sous le souffle d'une bombe? Alor...
JEAN BARBE Je parle de cette douleur qui est tellement grande qu'elle ne semble même pas naître à l'intérie...
ROSA MONTERO Nous avons déjà parlé de la notion temporelle propre à chaque saison, l'été étant l'époque o...
MARIE-CLAIRE DOLGHIN-LOYER La vie imite l'art, l'art imite la vie; parfois je suis incapable de les distinguer.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN La peur bloque la compréhension intelligente de la vie.
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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Death is a good Hotel : you are a guest at any Time. (Un bon hôtel est la mort. - Elle nous accueil...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l'âme vois-tu, la peinture n'est que le reflet de ce chagrin, an...
OLIVIER WEBER La porte s’est ouverte tout de suite et est allée co - gner contre le mur. J’ai perçu un claqu...
SYLVIE BéRARD Fais de ta vie un rêve, et d'un rêve, une réalité.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Lorsque la confusion règne, il est facile de se rappeler cette vérité : Je ne suis ni mes pensée...
ECKHART TOLLE Cette qualité de la joie n’est-elle pas le fruit le plus précieux de la civilisation qui est nô...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY VIVA LA VIE BOHEME!
JONATHAN LARSON Nous consommons ressources naturelles, énergie et matières premières comme si elles étaient des ...
MARCEL LéGER La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO Mes joues creuses et mon regard perçant ne facilitent pas les choses quand il s'agit de franchir un...
BJøRN GABRIELSEN Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét...
GEORGES PEREC Il y a des beautés qui sautent aux yeux et d'autres qui sont écrites en hyéroglyphes: on met du t...
AMéLIE NOTHOMB Ce qu'on appelle une raison de vivre est en même temps une excellente raison de mourir.
ALBERT CAMUS Il y a des personnes à qui l'intention ne vaut rien, seul le hasard leur est propice. Le silence co...
ERRI DE LUCA le moi est avant tout une instance de maitrise. C est un système de défense au service du principe...
CATHERINE MILLOT Puisque l'amour est cause de la joie, où l'amour est plus grand, la joie est plus manifeste.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page
of a book.
[Fr., Une louange en ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A qui écris-tu?
-A toi. En fait, je ne t'écris pas vraiment, j'écris ce que j'ai envie de fa...
ANNA GAVALDA L'idée préconçue entrave et endommage la libre et pleine manifestation de la vie psychique, que j...
C.G. JUNG Qu’est-ce qui peut seul être notre doctrine ? — Que personne ne donne à l’homme ses qualité...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Je suis sans pitié ! Je suis sans pitié ! Plus les vers se tordent, plus grande est mon envie de l...
EMILY BRONTë Et j'emmerde tous les gens bien-pensants qui estiment qu'un homme et une femme ne peuvent se limiter...
DAN DASTIER Quand je vous ai dit que vous aviez une prédisposition surnaturelle aux catastrophes, ce n'était p...
CHRISTELLE DABOS – Bah alors, c’est ce que je dis, avec la dotation qu’on a, ajouta Făneață puis il se leva...
CăLIN TORSAN Du reste, la majorité des orientalistes ne sont et ne veulent être que des érudits ; tant qu’il...
RENé GUéNON En ce moment, je me sépare tant soit peu de moi-même et vais à la rencontre de la personne qui s'...
VIRGINIA WOOLF La vie c’est comme la bicyclette : quand on arrête de pédaler on tombe.
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CLAIRE TOMALIN If you live in a family or have five roommates, there's some sort of reality check, but when you...
CLAIRE MESSUD There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I ...
CLAIRE DANES Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.
CLAIRE TOMALIN With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They...
CLAIRE FOY I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without hav...
CLAIRE MESSUD He is part of a whole series of different things we're going to do at Fidelity.
CLAIRE HUANG I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at t...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL This measure is temporary. We have kept enough staff in field offices to continue delivering service...
CLAIRE BOURGEOIS I feel that when we look at what's going on in the world and fossil fuels and all the problems with ...
CLAIRE ROBY It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these r...
CLAIRE DANES I would like the UNCW Surf Club to be a place for all students no matter what ability to come togeth...
CLAIRE MAGEE During the warmer seasons we have weekly Surf Clinics that members can either surf or choose to just...
CLAIRE MAGEE She would've been huge (Thursday) night. We had our top go-to player go down and we're still playing...
CLAIRE FAUCHER I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine...
CLAIRE DANES I think the challenge in transforming an industrial brand into a luxury brand should not be underest...
CLAIRE KENT But a group of toddlers making up a story together is a much richer learning experience than draggin...
CLAIRE LERNER The island is a one-stop shop for wilderness and outdoor adventure. You can get your feet dirty by d...
CLAIRE ELLIS When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with co...
CLAIRE DENIS The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.
CLAIRE MCCASKILL I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try t...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.
CLAIRE MESSUD Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty p...
CLAIRE CAMERON I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!
CLAIRE DANES I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his fac...
CLAIRE DANES On her chart battle with other Steps member Faye: "This will be a case of may the best woman win - a...
CLAIRE RICHARDS I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird. I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was...
CLAIRE DANES She came to my house one day and said, 'I'm taking you rowing. You don't need to see to row. Let's j...
CLAIRE GILBERT We will continue to work with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to enact a tax cut plan consiste...
CLAIRE BUCHAN Clearly the Democratic primaries have started early, and there appears to be a division within the p...
CLAIRE BUCHAN Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think, 'M...
CLAIRE MESSUD Wow, we sure came out hard. We were so fired up for this game because we knew we couldn't lose it. W...
CLAIRE FAUCHER So,' he said. 'What do you think of it?'
She twisted towards the fire and watched the flames be...
CLAIRE MERLE I'm going to get out of here,' she said.
'That's the spirit.' Tamsin sighed, letting go of her ...
CLAIRE MERLE How can anyone prove they're not insane to people that are?
CLAIRE MERLE In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work ...
CLAIRE TOMALIN Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while...
CLAIRE MESSUD My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three mi...
CLAIRE MESSUD I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my...
CLAIRE BLOOM Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.
CLAIRE DANES Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri fe...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL It's not totally unexpected on the first day of a campaign like this,
CLAIRE HAJAJ Quality improvement has always been the right thing for hospitals to do. But it's also becoming a fi...
CLAIRE TURNER You go ahead and eat that if you want, but I don't think it's possible.......
E. CLAIRE One of the greatest gifts in life is giving time and giving love. It helps me to stay grateful and h...
CLAIRE HOLT Buying fruit or vegetables that are in season is cheaper, as is buying loose produce. Frozen peas co...
CLAIRE WILLIAMSON The food we eat can have a massive impact on how our mind and body functions. Eating healthily helps...
CLAIRE WILLIAMSON A healthy diet is based on breads, potatoes and cereals, is rich in fruit and vegetables, and includ...
CLAIRE WILLIAMSON The market for wedding dresses is more often than not led by emotion and aspiration rather than rati...
CLAIRE BIRKS believes like most Americans that human cloning is deeply concerning, and he strongly supports legis...
CLAIRE BUCHAN She's the oldest one, she's the most mature, she's the smartest. She's just Jessica, you know, J-Mac...
CLAIRE COGGINS You want a mutual fund investment to be a long-term investment and gain the advantage of compounding...
CLAIRE SAUNDERS