38 quotes found
Writer · French · 1935–2004
French writer (1935–2004)
“There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.”
“He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.”
“We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.”
“What we love we may also despise.”
“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism....”
“Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.”
“Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.”
“his conscience washed clean by happiness.”
“Il arrive un âge où ils ne sont plus séduisants, ni «en forme», comme on dit. Ils ne peuvent plus boire et ils pensent encore aux femmes; seulement ils sont obligés de les payer, d'accepter des qua...”
“Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.”
“Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passion or habit and looking up like a startled creature of the night at the blazing June sun. Now, all...”
“We are born crying, and for good reason,' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.”
“He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the other party.”
“She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.”
“To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
“I have loved to the point of madness that which is called madness that which to me is the only sensible way to love.”
“Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature with all its contradictions appetites aversions rages can one hope to understand a little ... oh I admit only a very little ... of what life is about.”
