23 Quotes by Mathias Énard

Michelangelo is searching for love. Michelangelo is afraid of love just as he’s afraid of Hell.

The beverage is sweet, with a taste of herbs; the first two glasses are drunk quickly, to reach a state one will prolong by slowing down the rhythm. He lets himself give in to the sweet derangement of all his senses.

Entscheide dich für mich und meine erloschenen Geschichten.

He will express his suffering more clearly; he will compose two ghazals on the burning of jealousy, a sweet burning, for it fortifies love by consuming it.

He hears Saint Paul’s phrase in his head: “To learn how to pray, you must go to sea,” and he understands. The immensity of the watery plain frightens him.

There is nothing more majestic than a bridge. No poem or story can ever have that strength.

.. after all a photographer is a kind of spy bought by the highest bidder, a parasite who lives off war without fighting it…

In der Liebe können wir die Leiden des anderen ebenso wenig teilen wie unsere eigenen heilen.

A pošto su to deca, pričaj im o bitkamai kraljevima, đavolima, slonovima ianđelima, ali ne zaboravi da im pričašo ljubavi i sličnim stvarima.(epigraf, Radjard Kipling - Životna smetnja)