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Julien Green Quotes

Julien Green quotes

American Novelist September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998

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But nowadays my heart is empty and the boxwood has lost its magic scent; yes, absolutely and entirely. The creature that I was no longer exists. When I speak to her she does not understand me; I think of her, already, as of some one I have known but who no longer has any connection with myself. This sort of death of part of oneself strikes terror into my heart. Life presents itself to me as a progressive series of annihilations, until in time one arrives at the general destruction of all... Julien Green
I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. I don't want to go on playing in a world where everyone cheats. Where everyone cheats - not only men and women, but sometimes even God. Julien Green
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. Julien Green
Julien Green quote: "Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that..."
Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there. Julien Green
Julien Green quote: "Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find..."
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write. Julien Green
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. Julien Green
Julien Green quote: "Faith means walking on the waters."
Faith means walking on the waters. Julien Green
Julien Green quote: "In growing older, we become our parents."
In growing older, we become our parents. Julien Green
The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important. Julien Green
Julien Green quote: "A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel."
A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel. Julien Green
Julien Green quote: "The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as..."
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. Julien Green
The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed. Julien Green
Julien Green quote: "I enter the world called real as one enters a mist."
I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. Julien Green
The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and reports what he has observed. Julien Green
Julien Green quote: "What is real is beyond all reach."
What is real is beyond all reach. Julien Green

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