Quotes by Julien Green

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A book worthy of this name always belongs to its era through the spirit that animates it.

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One of the secrets of genuine talent is to see for the first time, to look at a leaf as if it had never seen leaves before, because only then can it appear to us in all its newness...

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Novels, the stages of a long inner journey...

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The novelist is like a scout who has been entrusted with the mission of going to see what is going on in the depths of the soul. He returns and tells what he saw there. It never remains on the surface and dwells only in the most obscure regions.

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The books he writes console the writer for everything that life denies him. A truly fulfilled life would probably be a sterile life for him. The satisfied man does not write.

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It is a terrible burden to carry the memory of happy days behind you. Memory becomes a real torture chamber, desire - a fire that consumes fire.