If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper. - 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
I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.
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
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.
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
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…
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
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 …
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
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room. - Julien Green
Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.
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
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.
Thought flies and words go on foot. - Julien Green
Thought flies and words go on foot.
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