Georges Duhamel quotes - page 2

If humanity were to lose its libraries, not only would it be deprived of certain treasures of art, certain spiritual riches, but, more important still, it would lose its recipes for living. (Georges Duhamel)

A book exhales a subtle odor of spirituality throughout the place it adorns.

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Books are the friends of solitude. They develop individuality and freedom. In solitary reading a man who is seeking himself has some chance of finding himself.

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We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

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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.

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

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The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

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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.

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Georges Duhamel

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Occupation: French Novelist
Born: June 30, 1884
Died: April 13, 1966
Quotes count: 33
Wikipedia: Georges Duhamel

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