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The threat is very serious and will only increase as the days go by without the waters receding.


Georges Benjamin

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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 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 Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a ...
GEORGES CUVIER A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not lim...
GEORGES CUVIER The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells ...
GEORGES CUVIER