“We scribbled down writers’ reflections on life, discovered the joys of describing ourselves to ourselves with shimmering turns of phrase, ‘existence is to drink oneself without thirst.’ We were overcome by nausea and a feeling of the absurd.” WritingSelf DiscoveryAdolescence Book:Les Années Source: Les Années
“I neither altered nor removed any part of the original text while typing it…. For me, words set down on paper to capture the thoughts and sensations of a given moment are as irreversible as time—are time itself.” WritingExpressionPurityFeeling Book:Getting Lost Source: Getting Lost
“At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, and all of them die as a result of becoming, or not becoming, reality.” WritingBookRealityNovelExperience Book:A Girl's Story Source: A Girl's Story
“Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsWritingI CanWarWholeMomentsTodayUsedLyingSunWrittenBrokenRevolutionConsequenceDiedTwentiesShameAccidentsMaking LoveDelaySixteenContraceptivesScorching Book:Simple Passion Source: Simple Passion
“Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.” PeopleWritingBodyLife IsPurposeExistenceUniversalSensationsMy ThoughtsTrue Purpose Book:Happening Source: Happening
