“Fifteen years old is the middle of my life, regardless of when I die.” — Édouard Levé Fifteen years Copy Share Image
“I wonder whether anyone besides old people like riot police.” — Édouard Levé Old people Copy Share Image
“I am slow to notice when someone mistreats me, it’s always so surprising: evil is somehow unreal.” — Édouard Levé Evil Copy Share Image
“Listening to music in the car is a way of passing the time, thus shortening my life.” — Édouard Levé Life Copy Share Image
“If I travel with someone, I see half as much of the country as if I traveled by myself.” — Édouard Levé Patriotism Copy Share Image
“And so you worried about not remembering what happened in between the things you wrote down. You had lived those moments too.… — Édouard Levé Remembering Copy Share Image
“You would renounce organizing your future. You would let yourself be guided by the randomness of encounters and events, indifferent to one… — Édouard Levé Choice Copy Share Image
“Driving once I thought I saw a road sign that said “Cheese Clinic,” I wondered whether they took care of cheese there… — Édouard Levé Food Copy Share Image
“When I am coming back from a trip, the best part isn’t going through the airport or getting home, but the taxi… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You directed toward yourself a violence that you did not feel toward others. For them you reserved all your patience and tolerance.” — Édouard Levé Patience Copy Share Image
“I am attracted to women who are generous with their time, their smiles, their conversation, their affection, and their physical desire.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Your taste for abbreviation meant that instead of finishing the works you undertook, you finished yourself. You” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You didn’t like to travel. You rarely went abroad. You would spend your time in your bedroom. It seemed useless to you… — Edouard Levé Time Copy Share Image
“I don’t write in the morning, my brain isn’t up to it yet, I don’t write in the afternoon, I’m too sad,… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You used to give yourself over to endless sessions of doubt. You would claim to be an expert on the subject. But… — Édouard Levé Depression Copy Share Image
“it sometimes happened that you would, in the middle of your exertions, be discouraged by the absurdity of what you were in… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You were not surprised to find yourself ill adapted to the world, but it did surprise you that the world had produced… — Edouard Levé Dead end Copy Share Image
“You are like the actor who, at the end of the play, with a final word, reveals that he is a different… — Édouard Levé Actor Copy Share Image
