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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

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Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 3rd, 1909

Died: August 24th, 1943

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