Books Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of…

— Gao Xingjian

France lost a great novel last night.

— Victor Hugo

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

— Andre Maurois

The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'

— Alain Juppe

Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant.

— Katherine Langford

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all…

— Elie Wiesel

I titled my book "Revolution." And that is exactly what it is. France is experiencing a time of transformation - in education, on the…

— Emmanuel Macron

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell

“Literature has to remain frustrating — to withhold something, remain incomplete — or it’s not literature anymore, but rather entertainment, edification or interpretation. That’s…

— Tom McCarthy

“So all that fame had lasted less than a hundred years! Les Orientales, Les Meditations, La Comedie Humaine - forgotten, lost, unknown! Yet here…

— Jules Verne

I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe.

— Lisa Joy

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in…

— Lafcadio Hearn