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 Copy Share Image
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes man from his innocent brothers, the animals,...is not language, nor reason, nor even civilization...it is man's enormous appetite for suffering.” — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
