Philippe Sollers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.
-- Philippe Sollers

#Lying #World
Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration (which are much the same thing).
-- Philippe Sollers

#Sex #Clumsiness #Realization
Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.
-- Philippe Sollers

#Art #Philosophy #Our World

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.
The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
White in the moon the long road lies.
The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

Philippe Sollers famous quotes

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