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Hervé Le Tellier QUOTES

Hervé Le Tellier QUOTES

1 " An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , Enough About Love: A Novel by the Bestselling Author of The Anomaly

2 " There are some works so luminous that they fill us with shame for the meager life to which we are resigned, that they implore us to lead another, wiser, fuller life; works so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role. "

― Hervé Le Tellier

3 " She is in love, she craves sugar, eats a dried apricot, another. All at once she is really tired. She will not wait any longer for Romain and goes to bed. She is not guilty because, she keeps telling herself, thrilled, she had no say in it. She falls asleep immediately. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , Enough About Love: A Novel by the Bestselling Author of The Anomaly

4 " Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , The Anomaly

5 " La religion est un poisson carnivore des abysses. Elle émet une infimie lumière,et pour attirer sa proie,il lui faut baucoup de nuit. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , The Anomaly

6 " There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role. "

― Hervé Le Tellier

7 " There is something admirable that always surpasses knowledge, intelligence, and even genius, and that is incomprehension. —The anomaly, Victør Miesel "

― Hervé Le Tellier , The Anomaly

8 " Penny for them?

I was thinking that the problem with smart people is that they waste too much time wondering if idiots are a little bit right, too. "

― Hervé Le Tellier

9 " But, you see, what I like about you is not that you feel foreign. And I don't think you ever did feel entirely foreign. But I like the fact that something about you still resists, refuses to become familiar, remains invincibly foreign. And it means that when I'm with you, I'm always rubbing up against a foreign element, something mysterious, irreducible, ever present, and full of happiness…It makes the way you walk and some of the things you do feel foreign to me for a moment. Your voice, on the end of the phone, from time to time: foreign. Your perfume, its vetiver fragrance, your own delicate smell: both foreign. Your subtly sinuous thought processes are so foreign to my own meanderings, and yet clearer and sharper. Of course you are not a foreigner, but how I value this foreignness in you. Perhaps keeping that foreign element is the secret. "

― Hervé Le Tellier

10 " When you're in motion, each instantaneous position is unstable. If you want to be in a stable position, just don't move. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , Enough About Love: A Novel by the Bestselling Author of The Anomaly

11 " Pero cuando se agotan las pilas del mando a distancia, siempre apretamos más fuerte. Es humano. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , The Anomaly

12 " No one takes their own life, didn’t they teach you that? There are just tortured souls who escape by killing their torturer. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , The Anomaly

13 " Nostalgia is a villain. It suggests that life makes sense. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , The Anomaly

14 " We want answers for even our tiniest anxieties and a way of conceiving the world without reexamining our values, our emotions, and our actions. Take climate change. We never listen to the scientists. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , The Anomaly

15 " Στο Αρχιπέλαγος Γκαγιόκ των Φιλιππίνων, οι ιθαγενείς ξέρουν να μετράνε μόνο μέχρι το 457. Για το μετά το 457, λένε: "πολλά". Το στοιχείο αυτό μπορεί να ξαφνιάζει, πόσο μάλλον που, όπως και να το κάνουμε, το 456 δεν είναι και λίγο. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , Contes liquides

16 " Que te llegue el éxito a los cincuenta es como que te traigan el kétchup con el postre. El reconocimiento póstumo de Miesel consterna "

― Hervé Le Tellier , The Anomaly

17 " reaffirms the soul-destroying notion that by accumulating our individual obscurities, we rarely achieve collective brilliance. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , The Anomaly

18 " Alguien, pues, en algún lugar de la galaxia, ha lanzado una moneda al aire y esta se ha quedado flotando. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , The Anomaly

19 " The lowest trash always have the option of taking refuge in patriotism. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , The Anomaly

20 " Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions. "

― Hervé Le Tellier , The Anomaly