"Et une fois de plus je m'avan cÂ° ais le long de ces me"Â mes couloirs, marchant depuis des jours, depuis des mois, depuis des anneÂ es, a'Â Â votre rencontre. And one more time, I advanced along these same hallways, walking for days, for months, for years, to meet you."

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Source : 1961 L'Anne e dernie're a' Marienbad.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

#Years Quotes #Long Quotes #Months Quotes

“I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.”
“In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how co-operative behaviour has evolved and been maintained in human societies, it could be very bad news. Because although such authoritarian systems seem to be good at preserving social coherence and an orderly society, they are, by the same token, not good at adapting to change.”
“Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.”
“But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.”
“The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."”
“It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.”
“The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.”
“A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.”

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