"Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle."

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Source : "'L'Abeille et l'architecte' ('The Bee and the Architect')". Book by François Mitterrand, Chapter 6, 1980.

Francois Mitterrand

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“Those who love wisdom must investigate many things”
“It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.”

Source : Anatole France (2016). “The Revolt of the Angels”, p.6, Xist Publishing
“This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of it, smoking too much and growing too thin and having stray thoughts of jumping from my balcony like a tortured heroine in a Russian novel.”

Source : Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.33, Ballantine Books
“Change in all things is sweet.”
“The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.”

Source : Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.299
“The knowledge that you can handle anything that comes your way is the key to allowing yourself to take risks. ... security is not having things; it's handling things.”
“Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.”

Source : Edward W. Said (2014). “Orientalism”, p.5, Vintage

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