“I want this epitaph engraved on my tombstone: “See you soon” — Édouard Levé Epitaph Copy Share Image
“I have less desire to change things than to change my perception of them.” — Édouard Levé Change Copy Share Image
“Dialogue binds me Monologue imposes upon me Soliloquy isolates me The” — Édouard Levé Communication Copy Share Image
“No one other than yourself could have given you a greater taste for life than for death.” — Édouard Levé Death Copy Share Image
“At a public urinal the presence of a neighbor delays my micturition.” — Édouard Levé Urinal Copy Share Image
“I am more attentive to the script of a play when I read it than when I see it performed.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Only once can I say “I’m dying” without telling a lie. The best day of my life may already be behind me.” — Edouard Leve Best day Copy Share Image
“In their beginnings, events preserve the potential that they lose in their completion. Desire prolongs itself so long as it is not… — Édouard Levé Beginnings Copy Share Image
“This selfishness of your suicide displeased you. But, all things considered, the lull of death won out over life’s painful commotion.” — Édouard Levé Death Copy Share Image
“The homeless embodied the final stage in a decline your life could have tended toward. You did not take them for victims,… — Édouard Levé Homeless Copy Share Image
“You didn’t identify with happy people, and in your excessiveness you projected onto those who had failed in everything, or succeeded in… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“If you were still alive, you would perhaps have become a stranger to me. Dead, you are as alive as you are… — Édouard Levé Alive Copy Share Image
“He resembled a corpse. This was perhaps what you feared: to become inert in a body that still breathes, drinks, and feeds… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You were said to have died of suffering. But there was not as much sadness in you as there is now in… — Édouard Levé Happiness Copy Share Image
“You had felt idle in this city through which you had paced only to kill time. But the emptiness that you believed… — Édouard Levé Emptiness Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t have been said to dance, exactly. Despite the music sounding around you, bodies being carried away by the whirling bass,… — Edouard Levé Dance Copy Share Image
“When you were awake, stretched out in your bed in the dark, shutters drawn, your thoughts would flow freely. They would grow… — Edouard Levé Dark Copy Share Image
“Once you confessed to someone that you had been very depressed when dining with her several months earlier. She was stunned, discovering… — Édouard Levé Straight face Copy Share Image
“Only the living seem incoherent. Death closes the series of events that constitutes their lives. So we resign ourselves to finding a… — Édouard Levé Accepting life Copy Share Image
“Your suicide makes the lives of those who outlive you more intense. Should they be threatened by boredom, or tshould the absurdity… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You did not fear death. You stepped in its path, but without really desiring it: how can one desire something one doesn’t… — Edouard Levé Death Copy Share Image
“When you traveled with company, the country would shrink away; your companion would become the subject of your voyage as much as… — Édouard Levé Business Copy Share Image
“Since you seldom spoke, you were rarely wrong. You seldom spoke because you seldom went out. If you did go out, you… — Edouard Levé Life Copy Share Image
“The last time I saw you, you were wearing a white cotton shirt. You were standing upright with your wife on the… — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You spoke to strangers for hours. Afterward you walked the streets in search of other cafes, but they were closed. You stretched… — Edouard Levé Language Copy Share Image
“In the midst of this utopia, which only your fellow lone voyagers would perceive, you used to transgress society’s rules unknowingly, and… — Édouard Levé Travel Copy Share Image
“You used to believe that with age you would become less unhappy, because you then would have reasons to be sad. When… — Edouard Levé Death Copy Share Image
