The Heart's Domain
A source page for quotes linked to Georges Duhamel.
“You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires.”
“Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.”
“It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.”
“We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.”
“I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.”
“I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.”
“Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.”
“To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.”
“No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.”
“There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.”