48 Quotes by Georges Perec

Je me souviens de "Dop Dop Dop, adoptez le shampooing Dop". (Je me souviens, 1978)

Önceden düşünülmüş bir hareket değil bu, bir hareket de değil zaten, bir hareket yokluğu, yapmadığın bir hareket,yapmaktan kaçındığın hareketler.

Tú no te mueves. No te moverás. Otro, un socias, un doble fantasmagórico y meticuloso hace, quizás, en tu lugar uno a uno, los gestos que tú ya no haces.

Atlamak zorunluydu, bunun bir anlamı olabileceğine ve insanın kendisinin bile bilmediği yansımaları olabileceğine ikna olmak için kendini atmak zorunluydu.

Qui ne travaille pas ne mange pas, certes, mais qui travaille ne vit plus.

Question your tea spoons.

What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed on order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why?Describe your street. Describe another. Compare.

It is on a day like this one, a little later a little earlier that you descover without surprise that something is wrong that you don’t know how to live and you will never know.

The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming – what should I do? – with an answer taking shape: nothing.