In age he was fifty at least, and his habits were as regular as those of a person can be who has no occupation but the study of how to keep himself employed.
“Contrary to conventional wisdom, opportunity always knocks more than once whereas a false step can never be retraced.”
― Les liaisons dangereuses
― Les liaisons dangereuses
“Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd always hoped that someday I'd be able to use it.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“I wish I wasn't such a dreamer. I've ruined this life for myself.”
― Initial Meeting
― Initial Meeting
“Le monde nous a été donné comme énigmatique et inintelligible, et la tâche de la pensée est de le rendre, si possible, encore plus énigmatique et encore plus inintelligible.”
― Impossible Exchange
― Impossible Exchange
“When I came out into society I was 15. I already knew then that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest to me, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learned how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelist to see what I could get away with, and in the end it all came down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.”
― Les Liaisons Dangereuses
― Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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