J.M.G. Le Clézio quotes
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“The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.”
-- J.M.G. Le ClézioSource : J.M.G Le Clézio (2010). “Desert”, p.117, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.”
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“She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years.”
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“If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course, and I can’t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.”
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“Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.”
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“It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of creation, in which the word is in a certain way human quintessence, prayer.”
-- J.M.G. Le ClézioSource : J. M. G. Le Clézio (1993). “The Mexican Dream: Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations”, p.111, University of Chicago Press
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“One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication.”
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“If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course, and I can’t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.”
Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
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“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.”
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Source : Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
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“Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead”
Source : Song: The Golden Age, Album: Sea Change, 2002
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