#French Author

[fleurdusoir]

La beauté de l'âme illumine tout un visage [...]

— Pierre Louÿs, Aphrodite

[cleopatragirlie]

ꗥ❀ 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐤𝐲 (𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟗) ❀ꗥ

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Félix Lorioux (French, 1872–1964) • Illustration of Tom Thumb from Tales of Perrault , Charles Perrault, authot (1628-1803) • 1926

[cigarettesandcoffee1904]

Albert Camus 1955.

[theidealistphilosophy]

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness.

[amynessblog]

Albert Camus

[lebn]

"It is the time you have spent on your rose that makes her so important."

~ Antione de Saint-Exupéry, 1900 - 1944

French aviator and writer, most well-known for the book ’The Little Prince’

[darkacademianew]

I derive my personality from his. He showed me that even philosophers can be cool.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"This spring is as black / As a faithless heart;"

~ Charles Guérin, The Journey's End (tr. Jethro Bithell)

[poppingmary]

“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”

Anaïs Nin

[belleandre-belle]

Amidst the ups and downs of life, and yes even death, beauty.

Eric Jeng (@ericj3ng) • Photos et vidéos Instagram

Many thanks to Alan for his poetic and philosophical sharing🙏💕🌺

"Contemplating nature and allowing ourselves to be overwhelmed by the sense of wonder that beauty brings out in us is an experience that sometimes literally transports us out of ourselves. Are we even aware that this beauty is everywhere?" Frédéric Lenoir

[fleurdusoir]

A l’heure où les étoiles Frissonnant sous leurs voiles Brodent le ciel changeant De fleurs d’argent.

— Théodore de Banville, À la Font-Georges

[bones-ivy-breath]

Dieu et La Fin de Satan or God and the End of Satan by Victor Hugo (tr. R.G. Skinner)

Translation:

Named Wind; and my speech enfolds star and spark, Since I am the universal breath

[chtulhuu]

Nous n'avons rien de bon à attendre du soleil ; mais les êtres humains peuvent peut-être, dans une certaine mesure, arriver à s'aimer.

''Le Mirage de Jean-Claude Guiguet'' in Interventions – Michel Houellebecq

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Illustrations: Walter Crane (British, 1845-1915) • Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans 

The children of Queen Blondine and sister Brunette picked up by a Corsair after seven days at sea, from the fairy tale Princess Belle-Etoile (Beautiful Star Princess), a fairy tale written by Madame d'Aulnoy (French, 1650/1651-1705)

Published by George Routledge & Sons, London • 1875

[theidealistphilosophy]

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson, Matter And Memory.