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Diary, 1928-1957

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Midnight

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Paris

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L'Avenir n'est à personne: Journal

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Vertigine

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On Life

Book:L'Avenir n'est à personne: Journal

Source: L'Avenir n'est à personne: Journal

“A volte scriveva, ma era un’occupazione che lo stancava un po’, e poi non concepiva l’idea di gustarsi la gioia di pensare mettendo per iscritto le fantasticherie della mente, a meno che quella fatica non gli avesse permesso di guadagnarsi da vivere. Era convinto che in genere le idee più felici non tollerano di essere espresse, giacché perdono tutta la loro originaria freschezza e appassiscono non appena vengono affidate alla penna. (L'inferno)”

Scrittura

Book:Vertigine

Source: Vertigine

“A alma de uma grande cidade não se deixa apreender facilmente; é preciso, para se comunicar com ela, termo-nos aborrecido, termos de algum modo sofrido nos lugares que a circunscrevem.”

Paris Cidade

Book:Paris

Source: Paris

“A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.”

People World Children Light Stars Dark Sky Corners Abyss Penetrate Grownups

Book:Midnight

Source: Midnight

“The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.”

“I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.”

Deals Secret Attention Observing

Book:Paris

Source: Paris

“I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.”

World Real Fog Mist

Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

“You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.”

Ifs Earth Interest Imagine

Author:Julien Green

“Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.”

Writing Lying Feet Goes On Drama

Author:Julien Green

“The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.”

Men Two Ends Wanted Together He Man Raises Judgement Protest

Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

“Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.”

Superiors Tyrants Oppressed Consolation

Author:Julien Green

“A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.”

People Popularity Dishes

Author:Julien Green

“Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.”

Doe Belief Orthodoxy Unbelief Bigots

Author:Julien Green

“The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.”

Writing Important Secret Importance Dare

Author:Julien Green

“A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.”

Men Novel Produce Great Novels

Author:Julien Green

“I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.”

Littles Paper Ink Exaggeration Equilibrium Exaggerating Ink And Paper

Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

“Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.”

Writing Book Christian Salvation Good Authors

Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

“Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.”

Long Enough Whole Life Is Time Whole Life

Book:Midnight

Source: Midnight

“Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.”

Want Writing Book Sometimes Character Life Is Novel Our Lives Theme Principal

Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

“Thought flies and words go on foot.”

Feet Goes On

Author:Julien Green

“Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.”

Moments Happiness Used Dark Rooms Silent Drawing Yesterday

Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

“If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.”

People Ifs Giving Heart Sometimes Lying Desire Novel Written Pages Give Me Craving Furious Loathing Tumult

Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

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Diary, 1928-1957

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