A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
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
