Georges Duhamel

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

— Georges Duhamel

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what…

— Georges Duhamel

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

— Georges Duhamel

You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires.

— Georges Duhamel

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans...…

— Georges Duhamel

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the…

— Georges Duhamel

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

— Georges Duhamel

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

— Georges Duhamel

“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

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

— Georges Duhamel

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

— Georges Duhamel

To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.

— Georges Duhamel

The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the…

— Georges Duhamel

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

— Georges Duhamel

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

— Georges Duhamel

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

— Georges Duhamel

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will…

— Georges Duhamel

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife…

— Georges Duhamel

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

— Georges Duhamel

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

— Georges Duhamel

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now…

— Georges Duhamel