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1. "The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things are precisely what language does not speak about. Language is a natural act which implies belonging. He who exists, speaks. He who does not speak, does not exist. He has no place in the world. The Huichol language is Huichol to the same degree as the Huichol earth, the Huichol sky, religion, tattooing, dress, the peyoteros' hat. It is not enough to pronounce the syllables of the Huichol language to be Huichol. That is obvious." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
2. "La nuit, tout sent bon", disait Mondo."C'est parce qu'on ne voit pas", disait Thi Chin."on sent mieux, et on entend mieux quand on ne voit pas"." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
3. "The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
4. "Horror is not unimaginable, it has neither the face of a monster nor the bat-wings of a demon. It is calm and tranquil, and it is durable, lasting whole days and nights, months; years, perhaps. It is not mortal. It strikes at the eyes, only the eyes." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
5. "Thinking! Thinking! The process should no longer be merely this feeble flurry of hailstones that raises a little dust. It should be something quite different. Thinking should be a terrifying process. When the earth thinks, whole towns crumble to the ground and thousands of people die.Thinking: raising boulders, hollowing out valleys, preparing tidal waves at sea. Thinking like a town: that's to say: eight million inhabitants, twelve million rats, nine million pints of carbon dioxide, two billion tons. Grey light. Cathedral of light. Din. Sudden flashes. Low-lying blanket of black cloud. Flat roofs. Fire alarms. Elevators. Streets. Eighteen thousand miles of streets. 145 million electric light bulbs." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
6. "It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of creation, in which the word is in a certain way human quintessence, prayer." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
7. "Si vous voulez vraiment le savoir, j'aurais préféré ne jamais être né. La vie, je trouve ca bien fatigant. Bien sur, à présent la chose est faite, et je ne peux rien y changer. Mais il y a toujours au fond de moi ce regret, que je n'ariverai pas à chasser complètement, et qui gâchera tout. Maintenant, il s'agit de vieillir vite, d'avaler les années le plus vite possible, sans regarder à gauche ni à droitPréface de "La fièvre" ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
8. "Notre siècle n'est plus un siècle à trésors. C'est un siècle de consumation et de fuite, un temps de fièvre et d'oubli." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
9. "Each time a drop of water forms under the spout of a tap, it means that one can wrench something away from the nameless mass." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
10. "I had never felt like that before, as if there were a sort of curse, a merciless force in the light that shone on a world where life is borken and lost, where each new day takes something from the day that precedes it, where suffering is inmovable..." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
11. "...cold, still, lookin a little uncomfortable in death as if they weren't quite used to it yet." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
12. "Lalla attend quelque chose. Elle ne sait pas très bien quoi, mais elle attend. Les jours sont longs, à la Cité, les jours de pluie, les jours de vents, les jours de l'été. Quelquefois Lalla croit qu'elle attend seulement que les jours arrivent mais quand ils sont là, elle s'aperçoit que ce n'étaient pas eux. Elle attend, c'est tout. Les gens ont beaucoup de patience, peut-être qu'ils attendent toute leur vie quelque chose, et que jamais rien n'arrive." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
13. "human beings, cans of living preserves" ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
14. "L'idée de ma survie dans ma postérité ne me touche pas beaucoup. L'avenir, cette énigme irritante, m'ennuie. Mais choisir son passé, se laisser flotter dans le temps révolu comme on remonte la vague, toucher au fond de soi le secret de ceux qui nous ont engendré: voilà qui permet de rêver, qui laisse le passage à une autre vie, à un flux rafraîchissant." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
15. "I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen the dogs dying along the Cholula road, or to have seen the eyes of the lepers at Chiengmai gave me the right to talk about it. To have seen! To have been there! Rubbish! The world is not a book, it proves nothing. The spaces one has crossed were dark corridors with closed doors. The faces of the women to whom one gave oneself up completely: did they speak for anyone but themselves? The cities of man are secret. One walks along their streets, one sees them shine under one's feet, but one is not there, one never enters them. The dusty fields inhabited by people who are hungry, who wait patiently, are paradises of luxury and nourishment; shining at a vast distance from intelligence, at a vast distance from reason. They are not to be subjugated." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
16. "Real lives have no end. Real books have no end." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
17. "He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to offer others, apart from chains, still more chains? Fiction never liberated anyone. No one ever brought anything back from voyages through dream worlds." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
18. "She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
19. "Maintenant, je le sais bien. On ne partage pas les rêves." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
20. "My message will be very clear; it is that I think we have to continue to read novels. Because I think that the novel is a very good means to question the current world without having an answer that is too schematic, too automatic. The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
21. "From that imbalance rose the tragic results of the coming together of two worlds. It was the extermination of an ancient dream by the frenzy of a modern one, the destruction of myths by a desire for power. It was gold, modern weapons, and rational thought pitted against magic and gods: the outcome could not have been otherwise." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
22. "Now I know that without mirrors we are different, we're not really the same...Maybe they had noticed us looking worriedly at other people's faces, as if we wee trying to see in them what we had become" ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
23. "Comment oublier le monde? Peut-on chercher le bonheur quand tout parle de destruction? Le monde est jaloux, il vient vous prendre, il vient vous retrouver là où vous êtes, au fond d'un ravin, il fait entendre sa rumeur de peur et de haine, il mêle sa violence à tout ce qui vous entoure, il transforme la lumière, la mer, le vent, même les cris des oiseaux. Le monde est dans votre coeur alors, sa douleur vous réveille de votre rêve et vous découvrez que la terre même où vous avez voulu créer votre royaume vous expulse et vous jette à la mer." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
24. "Maybe it was Roumiya's beauty that drove me away, her silent beauty, her eyes that seemed to be looking through everythig and draining it of all meaning." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
25. "You don't mean to say that Hogan has turned into a woman? Why, yes, that's him all right, you can recognize him by the fact that he has two legs, two arms, and an indecipherable face. Man, woman, what difference does it make? Are they not all exactly the same, these little black insects with their rhythmic movements, the same eyes, the same thoughts?" ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
26. "[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?" ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
27. "Un miros de sarac, un miros de violen?a, de necesitatea de a parveni." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
28. "[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression? Something like a cry, perhaps, a cry that, somehow, inexplicably contains all the millions of words that have ever existed, anywhere, in any age. In contrast with the spoken word and its classifying function, the purpose of writing seems, rather, to be a quest for the egg, the seed, nothing more." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
29. "Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
30. "Quelque chose brûle en moi. J'attends et je n'attends pas. C'est peut-être dans cette rupture, dans cet instant, entre les deux pulsions, l'une qui va vers l'infini du oui, l'autre vers l'infini du non, qu'est le lieu de la vie." ~ J.M.G. Le Clézio

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