Quotes from Julien Green
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
~ Julien Green
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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
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You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.
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Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
~ Julien Green
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Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.
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A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.
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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
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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.
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What is real is beyond all reach.
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I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.
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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
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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
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In realtà v'è qualcosa di calmo e di rassicurante nelle prime ore d'oscurità, ma a misura che la notte si fa avanti e che i rumori della terra tacciono, l'ombra e il silenzio prendono subito un carattere differente. Una specie d'immobilità soprannaturale pesa su tutto e non esiste parola più eloquente che quella di orrore per descrivere i momenti che precedono il sorgere dell'alba.»
~ Julien Green
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Per anni l'aveva rispettato; forse, pensava, anche amato, di quell'amore senza fuoco che si distribuisce in parti uguali ai diversi membri della propria famiglia.»
~ Julien Green
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Forse la più grande consolazione degli oppressi è quella di sentirsi superiori ai loro tiranni.»
~ Julien Green
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Ma così si comporta il cuore umano, che lascia trascorrere lunghi anni senza sfiorare per un istante l'idea di ribellarsi contro il proprio destino, poi viene il giorno in cui sente d'un tratto di non poterne più e che bisogna cambiare subito tutto e teme di perdere tutto rimandando anche di un sol giorno quell'impresa di cui la vigilia non aveva ancora la minima idea.»
~ Julien Green
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It has become somewhat trite, nowadays, to say that after so many years of destruction it is a kind of miracle that Paris is still standing, a miracle we thrill to every day. But if the beauty of Paris has survived wars, how extraordinary that it can do nothing against the pickaxes of the Parisians themselves when they make up their minds to demolish something, nor against the vagaries of their architects left to their own devices!
~ Julien Green
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Year by year I see trees disappearing. It's no good people saying they replant: you never find the same number. Each time there are fewer of them to raise their young arms towards the sun once again or shake their tresses in the wind.
~ Julien Green
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A volte scriveva, ma era un'occupazione che lo stancava un po', e poi non concepiva l'idea di gustarsi la gioia di pensare mettendo per iscritto le fantasticherie della mente, a meno che quella fatica non gli avesse permesso di guadagnarsi da vivere. Era convinto che in genere le idee più felici non tollerano di essere espresse, giacché perdono tutta la loro originaria freschezza e appassiscono non appena vengono affidate alla penna. (L'inferno)
~ Julien Green
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ViaÈ›a noastr? e o carte care se scrie singur?. Noi suntem niÈ™te personaje de roman care nu înÈ›eleg întotdeauna prea bine ce vrea autorul.
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Il en fut de [la] guerre [de sécession] comme de toutes les guerres. Les civils se haïssent, les soldats se battent. Seuls les civils demeurent irréconciliables.
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I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
~ Julien Green
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Faith means walking on the waters.
~ Julien Green
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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.
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