D. Simone Quotes

We all have our strengths and our failings.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

On ne na|"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.

One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.

When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.

Live with no time-out.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if I’m her knight in shinning armor.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.