14 Quotes by Fleur Jaeggy

But one does have to give words some credit. One has to at least pretend that they more or less resemble their meaning. Their shady meaning.

People, nearly all of them, don’t know how to worry about others without being presumptuous, with finesse, with modesty. They think they know. My sister thought she knew. Knew the human race. . . . Knowledge doesn’t know. But that’s something few understand.

Habría podido escribir una novela de amor con sequedad de corazón, como una anciana que recordara.

Todavía hoy no logro expresar con palabras que me había enamorado de Frédérique; es una frase muy fácil de decir.

La vida para mí se hacía demasiado larga. La literatura, por sí sola, no me distraía.

Cuando se está allí dentro, una imagina cosas grandiosas sobre el mundo, y cuando sale, a veces desearía volver a oír el sonido de la campana.

Hemos imaginado el mundo. ¿Qué otra cosa puede imaginarse si no es la propia muerte? El sonido de una campana y todo ha terminado.

Sui prati scoscesi volavano bassi i corvi, deformi, va na gloriosi, crudeli. Li avevi paragonati alla nostra adolescenza, mentre cercavano, nella terra intorno al collegio, dove mettere gli artigli.

I still thought that to get something you had to go straight for your goal whereas it is only distractions, uncertainty, distance that bring us closer to our targets, and then it is the targets which strike us.