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.

- Julien Green

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

- Julien Green

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

- Julien Green

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

- Julien Green

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 …

- 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…

- Julien Green

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

- 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.

- Julien Green

Thought flies and words go on foot.

- Julien Green