Georges Duhamel Quotes

• Siempre es valiente decir lo que piensa todo el mundo.

  Georges Duhamel

  Thinking, Bravery, Brave

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• No conocemos el verdadero valor de nuestros momentos hasta que han pasado la prueba de la memoria.

  Georges Duhamel

  Missing You, Memories, Good Life

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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

  Georges Duhamel

  Orejas, Bocas

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

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  Trust, Beautiful, Memories

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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• We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.

  Georges Duhamel

  Memories, Real, Color

  "The Heart's Domain". Book by Georges Duhamel, 1919.

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

  Georges Duhamel

  Felicidad, Felices, Hombres

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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

  Georges Duhamel

  God, Ideas, World

  Le d‚sert de BiŠvres (1937) in Chronique des Pasquier (1948) vol. 5, p. 249

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

  Georges Duhamel

  Errors, Doubt, Truth Is

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

  Georges Duhamel

  Matter, Drink, Thirsty

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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

  Georges Duhamel

  Order, Desire, World

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 My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

  Georges Duhamel

  Moving, Thinking, Want

  "Scenes de la vie future". Book by Georges Duhamel (p. 52), translated, 1930.

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

  Georges Duhamel

  Taken, Courtesy, British

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

  Georges Duhamel

  Shoes, Landscape, Tire

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• 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

  Sleep, Suffering, Shadow

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• The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.

  Georges Duhamel

  Marriage, Beautiful, Men

  Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”

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• Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

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  Humble, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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

  Georges Duhamel

  Battle, Bleeding, Fields

  Georges Duhamel (2008). “The New Book of Martyrs”

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• El nadador a la deriva en mar abierto mide sus fuerzas y se esfuerza con todos sus músculos por mantenerse a flote. Pero, ¿qué hacer cuando no hay tierra en el horizonte ni más allá?

  Georges Duhamel

  Sea, Land, Horizon

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• 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 heart.

  Georges Duhamel

  Book, Heart, Men

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

  Georges Duhamel

  Fate, Men, Bed

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

  Georges Duhamel

  Knives, Soul, Flesh

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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