When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. - Raymond Queneau
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
- 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
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…
It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience. - Raymond Queneau
It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.
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
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…
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream. - Raymond Queneau
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. - Raymond Queneau
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. - Raymond Queneau
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
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
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…
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. - Raymond Queneau
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
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