Phrases et Mots Français

                            FRENCH WORDS AND PHRASES I LIKE

Business Man – l’homme d’affaries

Method of operation   - mode d’emploi

Distinguished man – eminence gris

Legibility – lisibileté

The story – L’histoire

Car – voiture

Match – allumette

Pour my heart in you – couler mon coeur en vous...

                 BELIEF - Croyance


                              PLUS DE MOTS


The Right Word - Le mot juste

Behind  - derrière  (I like  sound)

Oblivion - L'oubli

Réflexions de Modiano

THE BLACK NOTEBOOK



"Do we have the right to judge the people we love? If we love them , it's for a reason, and that reason prevents us from judging them --- doesn't it?"

GLEENINGS - MODIANO

"the way we tend not to write down the most intimate details of our lives, for fear that, once fixed on paper, they'll no longer be ours."


"The past? No, it's not about the past, but about episodes in a timeless, idealized life, which I wrest page by page from my drab current existence to give it some light and shadow."


"Everything blends together, as in that empty room where, every night, a light shines."


"It has taken me almost an entire lifetime to return to my point of departure."


" 'We counted for so little in his life.' "

NANTUCKET - FLOTSAM

ROCKS AND SHELLS

LIVRES

"LE LIVRES SONT MES COMPAGNONS ET LA JOIE DE MY VIE."

THOUGHTS GLEANED FROM WALTER BENJAMIN - II

Benjamin Notebook

"...a doleful song streamed from forth from his mouth, reverberating from the mountain with a thousand sobs. 'Red of the morning, red of the morning lights the path to an early death.'"

"Morgenrot, Morgenrot, leuchtest mir zum fruhenmTod"

The Hypochondriac in the Landscape...

THOUGHTS GLEANED FROM WALTER BENJAMIN

"Healthy people must turn to the books of poets in order to feel life in all the deep and undivided sovereignty that cannot be grasped intentionally, to feel as it was felt..."