Raymond Radiguet Quotes

#1. I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.

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#2. People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores
Words are bumping into each other
("Poem")

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#3. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.

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#4. In her unworldly voice she thanked them for finally understanding her. She reminded me of a female pirate captain alone on the deck of her sinking ship.

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#5. Might becomes apparent only through injustice.

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#6. Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else - and failing.

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#7. Instinct is ourguide; a guide which leads to our fall.

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#8. True premonitions grow in depths where our thoughts never go. And sometimes they make us do things whose meaning we totally misunderstand.

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#9. Her hands clung to my neck; they would not have held me so fast in a shipwreck. And I did not understand whether she wanted me to save her or to drown with her.

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#10. We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from familiarity.

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#11. We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.

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#12. Instinct is our guide; a guide that leads to ruin.

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#13. What distresses us is not loosing life, but losing what gives it meaning.

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#14. It was then I realized that no one can escape his age, and that my dangerous contempt had melted like ice the moment someone was kind enough to show they cared about me, and in a way that suited me.

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#15. Happiness thinks only of itself.

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#16. It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

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#17. Is the selfishness of children really so different from our own? During the summer in the country we curse the rain, while the farmers are crying out for it.

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