Raymond Radiguet Quotes

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Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else — and failing.

Raymond Radiguet
Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together?

Raymond Radiguet
Misfortune never seems just. Only happiness is one's due. In accepting this misfortune without demur I was not being brave. It was simply that my mind could not encompass it.

Raymond Radiguet
All love has a youth, a maturity and an old age. Was I already at that final stage when love no longer satisfied me unless accompanied each time by some new trick?

Raymond Radiguet
The unconscious actions of a pure soul are even more strange than the vice's schemes.

Raymond Radiguet
But is the selfishness of children so very different from our own? In the country, in summer, we curse the rain, but farmers pray for it.

Raymond Radiguet
Like the first taste of a strange fruit, my first kiss had been something of a disappointment. We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from familiarity. A few minutes later I had not only grown accustomed to Marthe's mouth — I could not do without it. And then she spoke of depriving me of it for ever.

Raymond Radiguet
I find it impossible to appreciate anything the first time I experience it. So my enjoyment of the pleasure of love was to increase each day.

Raymond Radiguet
Every age bears its fruits, it's all in knowing how to harvest them.

Raymond Radiguet
Our happiness was a sand-castle. But the tide had no fixed time, and I hoped it would come in as late as possible.

Raymond Radiguet
So I left, and since I was sure I would never see Marthe again I tried hard not to think about her, with the result that I thought of nothing else.

Raymond Radiguet
If we live constantly with the same ideas, if we see only one, passionately desired object, we become unaware of how criminal are our desires. Naturally I had no wish to cause my father distress; yet I desired the very thing that would distress him most.

Raymond Radiguet