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Etre dans le vent, c'est avoir le destin des feuilles mortes.

What would you expect to find when the muzzle that has silenced the voices of black men is removed?

French Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

(n.) The language spoken in France.

(n.) Collectively, the people of France.

Vénérons le chien. Le chien (quel drôle de bête!), a sa sueur sur sa langue et son sourire dans sa queue.

We are not our own light.

Sunday lay so heavily in the air as to become almost nauseating. Maigret used to claim openly, half seriously, half in fun, that he had always had the knack of sensing a Sunday from his bed, without e...

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

Sombres, dites-vous? Mais posez-vous la question docteur : pourquoi tous les grands philosophes sont-ils sombres? Demandez-vous qui sont les gens satisfaits, rassurés et éternellement joyeux! Laissez-...

People in France have a phrase: Spirit of the Stairway. In French: Esprit de l'escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer, but it's too late. Say you're at a party and someone insults you...

Parce que, à sa façon de causer, on voyait bien que le gars était allé très longtemps à l'école. C'était probablement ce qui l'avait rendu dingue.

One of the many advantages of having a boyfriend who is half French is that his culinary repertoire extends beyond mac and cheese. Plus, there’s the kissing.

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.

Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

Human thought is by no means as private as it seems, and all that you need to read somebody else's mind is the willingness to read your own.

L'amour n'a point de moyen terme; ou il perd, ou il sauve.

Belle laide, Athénaïs calls me,' I replied with a little shrug. The expression was usually used to describe a woman who was arresting despite the plainness of her looks.

Jusqu'au dernier moment l'homme qui, doué d'une volonté prométhéenne, veut arracher à la terre son secret sentira la griffe du doute lui déchirer le cœur.

Je suggère que tu mettes de côté une partie des sommes que tu investis à fonds perdus dans l'industrie des boissons alcooliques.

Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis.

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.