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> [“You couldn’t have been said to dance, exactly. Despite the music sounding around you, bodies being carried away by the whirling bass, it didn’t get inside you. You used to trace out the steps, but you were mimicking dancing, rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/you-couldn-t-have-been-said-to-dance-exactly-despite-the-music/)

[Edouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

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## More by Édouard Levé

> [“Once you confessed to someone that you had been very depressed when dining with her several months earlier. She was stunned, discovering her blindness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/once-you-confessed-to-someone-that-you-had-been-very-depressed-when/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“You couldn’t have been said to dance, exactly. Despite the music sounding around you, bodies being carried away by the whirling bass, it didn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/you-couldn-t-have-been-said-to-dance-exactly-despite-the-music/)

[Edouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“Only the living seem incoherent. Death closes the series of events that constitutes their lives. So we resign ourselves to finding a meaning for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/only-the-living-seem-incoherent-death-closes-the-series-of-events/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“I am slow to notice when someone mistreats me, it’s always so surprising: evil is somehow unreal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/i-am-slow-to-notice-when-someone-mistreats-me-it-s-always-so/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“You directed toward yourself a violence that you did not feel toward others. For them you reserved all your patience and tolerance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/you-directed-toward-yourself-a-violence-that-you-did-not-feel-toward/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“I have never attended a nudist funeral.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/i-have-never-attended-a-nudist-funeral/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“You didn’t identify with happy people, and in your excessiveness you projected onto those who had failed in everything, or succeeded in nothing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/you-didn-t-identify-with-happy-people-and-in-your-excessiveness-you/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“I want this epitaph engraved on my tombstone: “See you soon”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/i-want-this-epitaph-engraved-on-my-tombstone-see-you-soon/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“You had felt idle in this city through which you had paced only to kill time. But the emptiness that you believed yourself confronted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/you-had-felt-idle-in-this-city-through-which-you-had-paced-only-to/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“In their beginnings, events preserve the potential that they lose in their completion. Desire prolongs itself so long as it is not achieved.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/in-their-beginnings-events-preserve-the-potential-that-they-lose-in/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“I wonder whether anyone besides old people like riot police.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/i-wonder-whether-anyone-besides-old-people-like-riot-police/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“You were said to have died of suffering. But there was not as much sadness in you as there is now in those who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/you-were-said-to-have-died-of-suffering-but-there-was-not-as-much/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“Only once can I say “I’m dying” without telling a lie. The best day of my life may already be behind me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/only-once-can-i-say-i-m-dying-without-telling-a-lie-the-best-day-of/)

[Edouard Leve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“I have never considered sleeping with a nun.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/i-have-never-considered-sleeping-with-a-nun/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

> [“At a public urinal the presence of a neighbor delays my micturition.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/at-a-public-urinal-the-presence-of-a-neighbor-delays-my-micturition/)

[Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/)

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