Famous quotes containing the words free and/or french:
“What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“Vivian Rutledge: So you do get up. I was beginning to think perhaps you worked in bed like Marcel Proust.
Philip Marlowe: Whos he?
Vivian: You wouldnt know him. French writer.
Marlowe: Come into my boudoir.”
—William Faulkner (18971962)