Annie Ernaux famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.
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Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences
-- Annie Ernaux -
Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.
-- Annie Ernaux
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A divided heart loses both worlds.
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Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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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.
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Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.
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There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.
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If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.
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