Famous Quotes Explained: « An author should be in a book like the police in the city: everywhere and nowhere, » Journal, Memoirs of Literary Life, Goncourt Brothers, 1887-1896.

Famous Quotes Explained: « Colonization: a bridgehead into a civilization of barbarism from which, at any moment, pure and simple negation of civilization can emerge, » Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Césaire, 1950.

Famous quotes explained: « Chance is the greatest novelist in the world; to be fruitful, one only has to study it », La Comédie humaine, Balzac, 1842.

Famous Quotes Explained: « There are infinitely more men who accept civilization as hypocrites than men who are truly and genuinely civilized, » Essays in Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, 1927.

Famous Quotes Explained: « The strength of love appears in suffering, » The Palace Gallery, Pierre Corneille, 1632.

Famous Quotes Explained: « Philosophy is not an illusion; it is the algebra of history. » In Praise of Philosophy (Éloge de la philosophie), Merleau-Ponty, 1953.

Famous Quotes Explained: « As one grows older, anger turns into sadness. », Act III, Scene 5, The Dead Queen, Montherlant.

Famous Quotes Explained: « To dream is allowed to the defeated; to remember is allowed to the solitary, » Songs of the Streets and Woods, Preface, Victor Hugo, 1865.

Famous Quotes Explained: « We do good; evil is Fortune; We are always right, destiny is always wrong, » « The Ingratitude and Injustice of Men towards Fortune, » , Fables, Book VII, La Fontaine, 1678.

Famous Quotes Explained: « Laughter is unique to man, » Gargantua, Rabelais, 1534.