25 quotes found
“I havent had any adventures. Things have happened to me, events, incidents, anything you like. But not adventures. It isnt a matter of words; I am beginning to understand. There is something I long...”
“Superfluity was the only relationship I could establish between these trees, these hedges, these paths. Vainly I strove to compute the number of the chestnut trees, or their distance from the Velle...”
“You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think yo...”
“I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon.”
“He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.”
