Quotes by Georges Duhamel

About Georges Duhamel:

Georges Duhamel was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit (ISBN 2-7152-1793-5), the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin. In 1935, he was elected as a member of the Académie française.
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I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

Georges Duhamel

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

Georges Duhamel

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

Georges Duhamel

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

Georges Duhamel

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Georges Duhamel

sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Georges Duhamel

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

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.

Georges Duhamel

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Georges Duhamel

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?

Georges Duhamel

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

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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.

Georges Duhamel

Author Bio

  • NameGeorges Duhamel
  • DescriptionFrench author
  • BornJune 30, 1884
  • DiedApril 13, 1966
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Physician; Novelist
  • Works
  • AwardsPrix Goncourt