“And so, when you return to the environment from which you came - which you left behind - you are somehow turning back upon yourself, returning to yourself, rediscovering an earlier self that has been both preserved and denied. Suddenly, in circumstances like these, there rises to the surface of your consciousness everything from which you imagined you had freed yourself and yet which you cannot not recognize as part of the structure of your personality - specifically the discomfort that results from belonging to two different worlds, worlds so far separated from each other that they seem irreconcilable, and yet which coexist in everything that you are.”
— Didier Eribon
“La rosa a la luz de la lámpara es mate. Sus pétalos descubren sus nervaduras. Se diría que está empolvada. ¿Por qué está belleza diferente nos parece tan singular que debemos esperar al día para disfrutar con la costumbre de las flores, de los colores, de la aventura de las cosas?”
— Jean Legrand, Doble fuga de amor y muerte.
“Con los libros pasa un poco lo mismo: estoy dispuesta a contemplar cualquier posibilidad, a tragarme kilómetros de frases, a condición de que el texto muestre un desfase con lo cotidiano, de una manera u otra.”
— Agnès Desarthe
“Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity-the illusory feeling that the course of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap that is closing around you.”
— Patrick Modiano
“El hombre es un animal que habla y se dejará seducir siempre por una palabra. Las máquinas no cambiarán la naturaleza humana.”
”…sí, todo el mundo lo considera un genio, es un genio, qué paradoja… no hay criterio objetivo.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, Las bellas imágenes.
“Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity-the illusory feeling that the course of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap that is closing around you.”
― Patrick Modiano
