Nathalie Sarraute famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.
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Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
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Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a'Â Â son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.
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Chacun peut e prouver en soi ce double mouvement: de s ir de s'inte grer a'  la socie te , besoin de se re aliser par soi-me" me en dehors d'elle. We all have this double impulse within ourselves: the desire to integrate into society, and the need to fulfil ourselves outside of it, through our own efforts.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
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Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.
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All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.
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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
-- Nathalie Sarraute
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