61 Quotes About French-literature

Предната вечер Уелбек беше споделил, че е невъзможно да се напише роман поради същата причина, поради която е невъзможно и да се живее, и тя се крие в натрупването на тежести. Всички теории за свободата, от Жид до Сартр, са основани върху иморализми, формулирани от освободени от каквато и да било отговорност ергени. Такива като мен, беше добавил той, докато начеваше третата бутилка чилийско вино.

He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.

— Картина... - каза замислено Уелбек. - Във всеки случай разполагам с достатъчно стени, където да я окача. Онова, с което действително разполагам в този живот, са стените.

And once again I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-flowers which my aunt used to give me (although I did not yet know and must long postpone the discovery of why this memory made me so happy), immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater.

Whoever wishes to rise above the common level must be prepared for a great struggle and recoil before no obstacle. A great writer is just simply a martyr whom the stake cannot kill.

Folly, error, sin, avariceOccupy our minds and labor our bodies,And we feed our pleasant remorseAs beggars nourish their vermin.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.