Le Temps Quotes & Sayings
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. — Marcel Proust
It was nice to kill time. But the time buries us before... (On a beau tuer le temps, - Il nous enterre avant) — Charles De Leusse
May my enemies tremble if they still have time! (Que mes ennemis soient tremblants - S'ils en ont encore le temps!) — Charles De Leusse
L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something. — Marcel Proust
The Tower of Babel" ...
The undersigned citizens, being artists, painters, sculptors, architects, and others devoted to and desirous preserving the amenities of Paris, wish to protest, in the name of our national good taste, against such an erection in the very heart of our city, as the monstrous and useless Eiffel Tower, already christened ... " The Tower of Babel" ...
How much longer is the City of Paris to be a play-ground for these barbarous and sordid imaginations which disfigure and dishonor her? For the Eiffel Tower, which even commercially minded America rejected, is a public dishonor to our city. All our historic buildings, our monuments of rare and appealing beauty, are dwarfed and humiliated by this monstrous apotheosis of the factory chimney whose odious shadow will lie over the city ...
Plea to the Exposition Director in opposition to the Eiffel Tower, signed by artists and writers and published in Le Temps, 1887 — Carol McCleary