The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.


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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
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
Estás solo, y al estar solo, no has de mirar nunca la hora, no has de contar nunca los minutos. No ...
GEORGES PEREC
Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien: c'ét...
GEORGES PEREC
Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le...
GEORGES PEREC
Non. Tu n'es plus le maître anonyme du monde, celui sur qui l'histoire n'avait pas de prise, celui ...
GEORGES PEREC
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of a...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
I am a believer and a conformist.
GEORGES ROUAULT
Thus the tower was both disease and cure. It rendered him unfit for the world and it remedied the hu...
GEORGES RODENBACH
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
In fact, ST was one of the first companies to initiate an environmental management program, which wa...
GEORGES AUGUSTE
ST has long been a supporter of, and participant in international programs aimed at reducing greenho...
GEORGES AUGUSTE
What often happens in a situation like this is people latch onto very concrete things, like buying v...
GEORGES BENJAMIN
If we do all this work, and there's no pandemic, you still have 36,000 people die every year of seas...
GEORGES BENJAMIN
A lot of the problems occur when people think everything's back to normal when in fact it isn't.
GEORGES BENJAMIN
People are eating out of (non-working) refrigerators. They think it's good because it's still a litt...
GEORGES BENJAMIN
I'm certainly not surprised we don't have a death toll.
GEORGES BENJAMIN