Raymond Radiguet > Quotes

“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, The Devil in the Flesh

“Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else - and failing.”
― Raymond Radiguet

“Her hands clung to my neck; they would not have held me so fast in a shipwreck. And I did not understand whether she wanted me to save her or to drown with her.”
― Raymond Radiguet

“ We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from familiarity.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Instinct is ourguide; a guide which leads to our fall.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Happiness thinks only of itself.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores

Words are bumping into each other

("Poem")”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

“Is the selfishness of children really so different from our own? During the summer in the country we curse the rain, while the farmers are crying out for it.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“What distresses us is not loosing life, but losing what gives it meaning.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Ce mot d'amour était sublime d'enfantillage. Et, quelles que soient les passions que j'éprouve dans la suite, jamais ne sera plus possible l'émotion adorable de voir une fille de dix-neuf ans pleurer parce qu'elle se trouve trop vieille.”
― Raymond Radiguet, Le Diable au corps

“Không gì thu hút người ta hơn tình yêu. Người ta vốn không lười biếng bởi vì khi si tình người ta mới lười biếng. Tình yêu cảm nhận một cách mơ hồ rằng sự giải khuây thực sự độc nhất của nó là sự làm việc. Vì vậy tình yêu xem sự làm việc như một đối thủ, và nó không chịu đựng được một việc làm nào cả. Nhưng tình yêu là tính biếng nhác tốt lành, giống như cơn mưa mềm cho cây cỏ tươi tốt.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“The flavour of that first kiss disappointed me, like fruit you taste for the first time. It's not in new things that we experience the greatest pleasure, but in habit.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“True premonitions grow in depths where our thoughts never go. And sometimes they make us do things whose meaning we totally misunderstand.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Instinct is our guide; a guide that leads to ruin.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Might becomes apparent only through injustice.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“In her unworldly voice she thanked them for finally understanding her. She reminded me of a female pirate captain alone on the deck of her sinking ship.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Nous croyons être les premiers à ressentir certains troubles, ne sachant pas que l'amour est comme la poésie, et que tous les amants, même les plus médiocres, s'imaginent qu'ils innovent.”
― Raymond Radiguet

“To contemplate death calmly only makes sense if we do it alone. Death as a couple isn’t death, not even for unbelievers. What distresses us is not losing life, but losing what gives it meaning. When a loved one is our life, what difference is there between living together and dying together?”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“And yet love must afford many advantages, I reflected, because men put their freedom in its hands. I was in a hurry to be strong enough to dispense with love, and thus not have to give up any of my desires. I didn’t realize that on the scale of subjugation, it is far better to be a slave to your heart than to your senses.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Nous étions des enfants debout sur une chaise, fiers de dépasser d’une tête les grandes personnes. Les circonstances nous hissaient, mais nous restions incapables. Et si du fait même de notre inexpérience, certaines choses compliquées nous paraissaient toutes simples, des choses toutes simples, par contre, devenaient des obstacles.”
― Raymond Radiguet

“It is at these troubled periods that frivolity, even license, are most easily understood, "because one enjoys with gusto what tomorrow may belong to somebody else.”
― Raymond Radiguet, Le Bal du comte d'Orgel

“Cứ sống mãi trong một số ý nghĩ, thấy mãi một điều duy nhất, nếu tha thiết muốn điều đó, mình sẽ không còn nhận ra tội lỗi của dục vọng mình nữa.”
― Raymond Radiguet

“Nothing is more absorbing than love. You don’t have time to be idle, because, being in love, you are idle. Love is vaguely aware that its only real distraction is work. So it regards it as a rival. And a rival is one thing it won’t tolerate. Yet love is a benign form of idleness, like soft refreshing rain.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Cunoșteam prea bine comoara vorbelor pe care nu le spui niciodată celor pe care îi iubești, de teama de a nu părea copilăros, pentru a nu mă teme, în ceea ce o privește pe Marta, de această pudoare dezolantă, așa că sufeream că nu-i pot pătrunde sufletul.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“ Quand on ment, qu'on dit à une femme qu'on l'aime, on peut croire qu'on ment, mais quelque chose nous a poussé à le lui dire, par conséquent c'est vrai. ”
― Raymond Radiguet

“Power only mainfests itself when used unjustly.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Talora succede che questa somiglianza morale si estenda al piano fisico. Sguardo, andatura: più volte degli sconosciuti ci scambiarono per fratello e sorella. Ci sono infatti in noi germi di somiglianza che è poi l’amore a sviluppare. Un gesto, un’inflessione della voce tradiscono prima o poi anche gli amanti più accorti.
Se è vero che il cuore ha ragioni che la ragione non conosce, ciò accade perché quest’ultima è meno ragionevole del nostro cuore. Probabilmente siamo tutti dei Narcisi che amano e detestano la propria immagine, ma a cui qualunque altra è indifferente. È proprio questo istinto della somiglianza a guidarci nella vita, gridandoci “alt!” davanti a un paesaggio, a una donna o a una poesia. Possiamo ammirarne altri, ma non sentiamo la medesima scossa. L’istinto della somiglianza è l’unica linea di condotta che non sia artificiale. Tuttavia in società solo gli spiriti volgari sembreranno non peccare contro la morale, inseguendo sempre lo stesso tipo.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“En büyük zevk ilk kez hissedilen şeylerden değil, alışılmış şeylerden alınır.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh