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“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.”
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Julien Green
Source : Julien Green (1936). “Midnight”
#Stars Quotes
#Children Quotes
#Dark Quotes
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“You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.”
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Julien Green
#Earth Quotes
#Imagine Quotes
#Interest Quotes
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“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.”
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Julien Green
Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins
#Book Quotes
#Character Quotes
#Writing Quotes
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“I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.”
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Julien Green
Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins
#Real Quotes
#Fog Quotes
#World Quotes
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“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.”
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Julien Green
Source : Julien Green (1936). “Midnight”
#Time Quotes
#Long Quotes
#Life Is Quotes
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“The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.”
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Julien Green
#Heart Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Discovery Quotes
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“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.”
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Julien Green
#Writing Quotes
#Secret Quotes
#Important Quotes
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“Thought flies and words go on foot.”
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Julien Green
#Feet Quotes
#Goes On Quotes
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“Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.”
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Julien Green
Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins
#Happiness Quotes
#Dark Quotes
#Drawing Quotes
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“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.”
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Julien Green
Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins
#Men Quotes
#Two Quotes
#Together Quotes
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“I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.”
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Julien Green
Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins
#Ink And Paper Quotes
#Littles Quotes
#Equilibrium Quotes
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“A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.”
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Julien Green
#People Quotes
#Popularity Quotes
#Dishes Quotes
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“Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.”
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Julien Green
Source : "Journal" by Julien Green, July 23, 1945.
#Orthodoxy Quotes
#Doe Quotes
#Belief Quotes
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“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.”
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Julien Green
Source : Julien Green (1991). “Paris”, Marion Boyars Publishers Limited
#Secret Quotes
#Attention Quotes
#Deals Quotes
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“Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.”
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Julien Green
Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins
#Christian Quotes
#Book Quotes
#Writing Quotes
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“Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.”
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Julien Green
#Tyrants Quotes
#Consolation Quotes
#Oppressed Quotes
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“A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.”
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Julien Green
#Men Quotes
#Produce Quotes
#Novel Quotes
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“Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.”
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Julien Green
#Drama Quotes
#Lying Quotes
#Writing Quotes
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“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.”
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Julien Green
Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins
#Lying Quotes
#Heart Quotes
#People Quotes
