“I wonder whether anyone besides old people like riot police.” — Édouard Levé Old people Copy Share Image
“Fifteen years old is the middle of my life, regardless of when I die.” — Édouard Levé Fifteen years Copy Share Image
“I am slow to notice when someone mistreats me, it’s always so surprising: evil is somehow unreal.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“To know makes me grow Not to know harms me To forget frees me.” — Édouard Levé Edouard-leve 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
“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 Road sign 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 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
“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 Getting Home 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 Communication 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 Theatre 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
“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 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
“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 Long time 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
“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
“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
“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
“You had felt idle in this city through which you had paced only to kill time. But the emptiness that you believed… — Édouard Levé Time 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
“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 Last time Copy Share Image
