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> [“It has become somewhat trite, nowadays, to say that after so many years of destruction it is a kind of miracle that Paris is still standing, a miracle we thrill to every day. But if the beauty of Paris has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/it-has-become-somewhat-trite-nowadays-to-say-that-after-so-many-years/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

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## More by Julien Green

> [“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/the-novelist-is-like-a-scout-commissioned-to-go-and-see-what-is/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/perhaps-the-greatest-consolation-of-the-oppressed-is-to-consider/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/i-have-always-thought-that-by-observing-things-with-a-great-deal-of/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [“It has become somewhat trite, nowadays, to say that after so many years of destruction it is a kind of miracle that Paris is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/it-has-become-somewhat-trite-nowadays-to-say-that-after-so-many-years/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/the-secret-is-to-write-just-anything-to-dare-to-write-just-anything/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [“Sometimes we do things, without thinking, that make no sense to us until much later, and yet appear to have been prompted by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/sometimes-we-do-things-without-thinking-that-make-no-sense-to-us/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/if-people-only-knew-what-lies-at-the-heart-of-my-novels-what-a-tumult/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [“What we give the world, we have borrowed from no one; it is ours. It may be taken from us, stolen from us, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/what-we-give-the-world-we-have-borrowed-from-no-one-it-is-ours-it-may/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/the-greatest-explorer-on-this-earth-never-takes-voyages-as-long-as/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/a-dish-around-which-i-see-too-many-people-doesn-t-tempt-me/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [“Things we could not tell each other with the width of the Atlantic between us we communicated from heart to heart in those imaginary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/things-we-could-not-tell-each-other-with-the-width-of-the-atlantic/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [“I am the road running through Paris," says the Seine. 'I have carried off many images since you were a child and reflected many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/i-am-the-road-running-through-paris-says-the-seine-i-have-carried-off/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [“Have you never noticed how absorbed people look as they climb from floor to floor? So many resolutions reached, so many anxious questions to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/have-you-never-noticed-how-absorbed-people-look-as-they-climb-from/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/a-novelist-is-like-a-scout-commissioned-to-go-and-see-what-is/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

> [I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-green/i-enter-the-world-called-real-as-one-enters-a-mist/)

[Julien Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-green/)

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