René Crevel QUOTES

1 " Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves. Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners. It is another story with curved lines. The song of the curved line is called happiness. "

― René Crevel

2 " Sixty years of virginity tried in vain to dam the waters of instinct as they burst through the granite of good intentions,the rock of irreproachablee conduct. "

― René Crevel , Putting My Foot in It

3 " No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support. "

― René Crevel

4 " Already a system is being constructed that explains our perpetual solitude: if we remain alone among those who were supposed to be like us, it is because we cannot find any creature spontaneous enough. No one capable of equaling our primal states and enriching our existence with some magnificent and brutal enchantment.

I am alone in a covered gallery. "

― René Crevel , My Body and I

5 " Seul, il ne saurait où fuir.
Que de fois déjà, las de lui-même est-il descendu, non pour demander secours à quelque autre, mais pour se perdre dans la rue, parc anonyme, mais le plus beau, se forçait-il à croire, de toutes les promesses. Il marchait, ne trouvait point ce rêve sans nom et sans visage en quoi il avait décidé de se perdre. Il marchait. Aucun regard ne retenait le sien. Sur le sol mouillé la plus faible lueur multipliait toute tristesse.
Il marchait et le froid se faisait maillot sous les vêtements, le linge. Ses dents claquaient. Son squelette souffrait seul et tout entier, car déjà ce squelette avait dévoré sa chair. Ce qui, de son corps, demeurait apte au bonheur se fanait. Dans ses poches, ses mains étaient des fleurs, sans sève, sans couleur. Alors il entrait n'importe où, non pour trouver quelque secours précis, humain, car s'il cherchait à retarder la débâcle c'était par d'étranges aides et il n'eût su que faire d'une peau habitée par un esprit semblable au sien. "

― René Crevel , Difficult Death

6 " It is because this sensation of truth provides me with a joy I would be unable to describe in human words that I believe it to be from some other world and that, through its
miracle, I can already picture myself having passed through the gates of death. "

― René Crevel , My Body and I

7 " It is because this sensation of truth provides me with a joy I would be unable to describe in human words that I believe it to be from some other world and that, through its miracle, I can already picture myself having passed through the gates of death. "

― René Crevel , My Body and I

8 " But could one ever know what to expect of the redheaded creature who had already carried off a son-in-law, or of the crane who had devoured the most clairvoyant of all fish-owls ever to haunt an earthly dream? "

― René Crevel , Babylon