More Quotes by Alphonse Daudet
The prisoner imagines freedom to be more wonderful than it is.
La meilleure facon d'imposer une idée aux autres, c'est de leur faire croire qu'elle vient d'eux
Çok az kişinin anlayıp hakkını vereceği bir uğraş için neden bu kadar çabaladığını sorduklarında şu dediklerimi hatırka: 'Birkaç kişi anlasa da bana yeter, bir kişi bile yeter, hatta kimse anlamasa da razıyım.
Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him. Everyone will get used to it except me.
Men grow old, but they do not ripen.
There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures, that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.
Plus grands sont les amours, plus courte est la mémoire Vous l’avez oublié, nous en sommes tous là ; Le cœur le plus aimant n’est qu’une vaste armoire. On fait deux tours, et puis voilà.
Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.
My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.
Pain, you must be everything for me. Let me find in you all those foreign lands you will not let me visit.
