Fabrice Luchini quotes

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
-- Fabrice Luchini

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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.