Georges Duhamel famous quotes

03-25-2025

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Thinking #Bravery #Brave
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Trust #Beautiful #Memories
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Memories #Good Life #Tests
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Ideas #World #Too Much
We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Knives #Soul #Flesh
You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Shoes #Landscape #Tire
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
-- Georges Duhamel

#Sea #Land #Horizon
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Sleep #Suffering #Shadow
There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Battle #Bleeding #Fields
No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Errors #Doubt #Truth Is
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Fate #Men #Sides
To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Matter #Drink #Thirsty
The desire for order is the only order in the world.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Order #Desire #World
The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Marriage #Beautiful #Men
When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Ears #Mouths
I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Moving #Thinking #Want
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Happy #Men #Joy
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Humble #Sacrifice #Thinking
Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.
-- Georges Duhamel

#Taken #Courtesy #Refuge

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