Julien Green Quotes

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Thought flies and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of the writer.

Julien Green
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

Julien Green
If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.

Julien Green
The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

Julien Green
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

Julien Green
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

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Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

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I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

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Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

Julien Green