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> [“You used to believe that with age you would become less unhappy, because you then would have reasons to be sad. When you were still young, your suffering was inconsolable because you believed it to be unfounded. Your”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/you-used-to-believe-that-with-age-you-would-become-less-unhappy/)

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

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## More by Edouard Levé

> [“Far from your home, you used to taste the pleasure of being mad without being alienated, of being an imbecile without renouncing your intelligence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/far-from-your-home-you-used-to-taste-the-pleasure-of-being-mad/)

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

> [“You used to believe that with age you would become less unhappy, because you then would have reasons to be sad. When you were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/you-used-to-believe-that-with-age-you-would-become-less-unhappy/)

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

> [“Moreover, liars write less than they speak.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/moreover-liars-write-less-than-they-speak/)

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

> [“You said that the night returned what the day had taken. You”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/you-said-that-the-night-returned-what-the-day-had-taken-you/)

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

> [“To love someone from the moment of his death: is that friendship? I”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/to-love-someone-from-the-moment-of-his-death-is-that-friendship-i/)

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

> [“Your life was a hypothesis. Those who die old are made of the past. Thinking of them, one thinks of what they have done.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/your-life-was-a-hypothesis-those-who-die-old-are-made-of-the-past/)

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

> [“When you are spoken of, it begins with recounting your death, before going back to explain it. Isn’t it peculiar how this final gesture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/when-you-are-spoken-of-it-begins-with-recounting-your-death-before/)

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

> [“A ruin is an accidental aesthetic object. If it becomes beautiful, this was certainly not the intention. A ruin is not constructed or maintained.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/a-ruin-is-an-accidental-aesthetic-object-if-it-becomes-beautiful-this/)

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

> [“All that would be needed to renew the bond would be a telephone call, but none of us are willing to risk the disillusionment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/all-that-would-be-needed-to-renew-the-bond-would-be-a-telephone-call/)

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

> [“Since you seldom spoke, you were rarely wrong.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/since-you-seldom-spoke-you-were-rarely-wrong/)

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

> [“It was nighttime by day, a negative version of darkness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/it-was-nighttime-by-day-a-negative-version-of-darkness/)

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

> [“You don’t make me sad, but solemn. You impair my incurable frivolity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/you-don-t-make-me-sad-but-solemn-you-impair-my-incurable-frivolity/)

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

> [“You didn’t entertain on demand. You”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/you-didn-t-entertain-on-demand-you/)

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

> [“You are that black but intense glow, which, since the dying of your light, freshly illuminates the day that had become obscure to them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/you-are-that-black-but-intense-glow-which-since-the-dying-of-your/)

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

> [“You remain alive insofar as those who have known you outlive you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edouard-lev/you-remain-alive-insofar-as-those-who-have-known-you-outlive-you/)

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

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