Joë Bousquet quotes
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“An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.”
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“My wound existed before me; I was born to embody it.”
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“Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.”
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“A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.”
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“I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss.”
-- Joë Bousquet
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“What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation
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“Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.”
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Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.122
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“Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.”
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