J. M. G. Le Clézio Quotes

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If you really want to know, I'd rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing's done now, of course, and I can't alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.

J. M. G. Le Clézio

Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.

J. M. G. Le Clézio

She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years.

J. M. G. Le Clézio

The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.

J. M. G. Le Clézio

J. M. G. Le Clézio

J. M. G. Le Clézio

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Born: April 13, 1940 (age 84)

Bio: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, is a French-Mauritian writer and professor.

Known for:

The Interrogation (1963)
The African (2004)
Désert (1980)
Wandering Star (1992)
Onitsha (1991)

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