A Farewell to France Quotes

“All of us have to make the best of a bad job - which is what life is really all about.”
― Noel Barber, A Farewell to France

“Anger is a futile emotion. The man who is angry loses more energy than his victim. So if you are angry you put yourself at a disadvantage.”
― Noel Barber, A Farewell to France

“Yet against all this background of mourning despair, Paris in the summer of 1939 seemed gilded by splendid receptions, dances, right-wing festivities. The prospect of war was an ever-present ghost at every party, but even so people refused to acknowldege the reality behind the fears. Each new crisis was like a splinter of glass that scratched, might even draw a drop of blood, but was not savage enough to wound badly.
The madness in the air was a last-gasp attempt to enjoy ourselves while we could, a collective national need for illusions, by a patient with an incurable disease who knows that death will come at any moment.”
― Noel Barber, A Farewell to France