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Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1) QUOTES

Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1) QUOTES

1 " Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

2 " The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

3 " I felt suffocated. And alone. More alone than ever. Every year, I ostentatiously crossed out of my address book any friend who'd made a racist remark, neglected those whose only ambition was a new car and a Club Med vacation, and forgot all those who played the Lottery. I loved fishing and silence. Walking the hills. Drinking cold Cassis, Lagavulin, or Oban late into the night. I didn't talk much. Had opinions about everything. Life and death. Good and evil. I was a film buff. Loved music. I'd stopped reading contemporary novels. More than anything, I loathed half-hearted, spineless people. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

4 " Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

5 " Πυγμαχία δεν είναι μόνο να χτυπάς. Το πρώτο που πρέπει να μάθεις είναι να δέχεσαι χτυπήματα. Να τα αντέχεις. Και να φροντίζεις ώστε να σου κάνουν το μικρότερο δυνατό κακό. Η ζωή τίποτε άλλο δεν είναι από μια σειρά γύρων, ο ένας μετά τον άλλο. Να τρως και να δίνεις γροθιές, ξανά και ξανά. Να τις αντέχεις. Να μη λυγίζεις. Και να βαράς εκεί που πρέπει , τη στιγμή που πρέπει. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

6 " Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

7 " I don't like answering private questions. The answers are often ambiguous and can be interpreted in different ways. Even when the other person is close to you. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

8 " Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

9 " So much violence. If God existed, I'd have strangled him on the spot. Without batting an eyelid. And with all the fury of the damned. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

10 " Days are only beautiful early in the morning. I should have remembered that. Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful. When the world opens its eyes, reality reasserts itself, and you're back with the same old shit. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

11 " ...I understand where you're coming from. I know it isn't just a question of revenge. It's the feeling there are some things you can't let pass. If you did, you wouldn't be able to look at yourself in the mirror afterwards. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

12 " Why was it so difficult to make new friends once you were past forty Was it because we didn't have dreams anymore, only regrets? "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

13 " Happiness. One day. Ten thousand years ago. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

14 " I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

15 " Nobody was speaking. Only the cicadas continued their whine, indifferent to human tragedies. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

16 " It's at moment of misfortune that we remember we're all exiles. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

17 " Ordinary French people. Citizens of fear. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

18 " The one thing I could give them was a smile. I've always been good at smiles. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

19 " You ought to get out more. You know, Pérol, we should go out some evening, just you and me. Otherwise, you lose touch with reality. You know what I mean? You lose your sense of reality, and hey presto, you don't know which shelf you left your soul on. The shelf where you put your friends. The shelf where you put your women. Stage right, stage left. Or in the shoebox. You turn around and you find you're stuck in the bottom drawer, with the accessories. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)

20 " Killing was easy. Dying was something else. "

― Jean-Claude Izzo , Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)