Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

- Raymond Queneau

It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.

- Raymond Queneau

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

- Raymond Queneau

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very l…

- Raymond Queneau

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a t…

- Raymond Queneau

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

- Raymond Queneau

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

- Raymond Queneau

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Lea…

- Raymond Queneau

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

- Raymond Queneau