Top 33 Rene Char Quotes
#1. How did writing come to me? Like bird's down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.
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#2. In the darkness of our lives, there is not one place for Beauty. The whole place is for Beauty.
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#3. To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.
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#4. No man, unless he be dead in living, can feel at anchor in this life.
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#5. Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.
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#6. Eternity is not much longer than life.
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#7. What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.
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#8. Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun.
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#9. The poet advises: 'Read me. Read me again.'
He does not always come away unscathed from
his page, but like the poor, he knows how to
make use of an olive's eternity.
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#10. A poem is the realization of love ...
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#11. I believe in the magic and authority of words.
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#12. Children and geniuses know that there is no bridge, only the water that lets itself be crossed.
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#13. In my land we don't question someone who has been touched deeply.
There is no malign shadow over capsized boats.
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#14. For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.
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#15. A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proof.
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#17. You only fight well for causes you yourself have shaped, with which you identify - and burn.
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#18. We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.
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#19. Imagination consists in expelling from reality many incomplete persons, making use of the magical and subversive powers of desire, to obtain their return in the form of a completely satisfying presence. This, then, is the inextinguishable, uncreated reality.
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#20. Companions in pathos,who barely murmur,go with your lamp spent and return the jewels. A new mystery sings in your bones. Cultivate your legitimate strangeness.
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#21. The oriole entered the capital of dawn. The sword of his song closed the sad bed.
Everything forever ended.
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#22. What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience
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#23. Midnight is not in everyman's reach.
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#24. Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.
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#25. It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
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#26. Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
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#27. How can we live without the unknown before us?
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#28. Desire, desire which knows, we draw no advantage from our shadows except from some veritable sovereignties accompanied by invisible flames, invisible chains, which, coming to light, step after step, cause us to shine.
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#29. I believe in the magic and in the authority of words
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#30. Develop your legitimate strangeness.
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#31. With my teeth
I have seized life
Upon the knife of my youth.
With my lips today,
With my lips alone ...
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#32. Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.
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#33. Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.
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