74 quotes found
Writer · French · 1956
French writer (born 1956)
“I was about as political as a bath towel.”
“The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.”
“I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.”
“The most stupid religion is Islam.”
“Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.”
“Your only chance of survival, if you are severely smitten, lies in hiding this fact from the woman you love, of feigning a casual detachment under all circumstances. What sadness there is in this s...”
“Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.”
“The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravitywhich is what, more or less, all teenage girls are.”
“...intimacy isn't something men talk about. They may talk about politics, literature, stocks, or sports, depending on the man, but about their love lives they keep silent, even to their dying breath.”
“Intimacy isnt something men talk about.”
“What about you, Michel, what are you going to do here?'The response closest to the truth was probably something like 'Nothing'; but it's always difficult to explain that kind of thing to an active ...”
“You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.”
“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”
“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Reall...”
“You too, you took an interest in the world. That was long ago. I want you to cast your mind back to then. The domain of the rules was no longer enough for you; you were unable to love any longer in...”
“It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.”
“When you got right down to it, my dick was the one organ that hadn’t presented itself to my consciousness through pain, only pleasure. Modest but robust, it had always served me faithfully. Or, you...”
“That's precisely what's so extraordinary about you, you enjoy giving pleasure. Offering your body as an object of pleasure, giving pleasure unselfishly: that's what Westerners don't know how to do ...”
“The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our compassion between two infinities of happiness and...”
“Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature.”
