--- title: "1 Script Play Quotes By Édouard Levé" description: "1 Script Play quotes by Édouard Levé. Plus more from Édouard Levé and more Script Play sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/979/douard-lev-10437_attentive_i-am-more-attentive-to-the-script-of-a-p_3062509.jpg" --- > [“I am more attentive to the script of a play when I read it than when I see it performed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/i-am-more-attentive-to-the-script-of-a-play-when-i-read-it-than-when/) [Édouard Levé](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douard-lev/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/979/douard-lev-10437_attentive_i-am-more-attentive-to-the-script-of-a-p_3062509.jpg) ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/script-play/douard-lev/#itemlist", "name": "1 Script Play Quotes By Édouard Levé", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I am more attentive to the script of a play when I read it than when I see it performed.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Édouard Levé" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douard-lev/i-am-more-attentive-to-the-script-of-a-play-when-i-read-it-than-when/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/979/douard-lev-10437_attentive_i-am-more-attentive-to-the-script-of-a-p_3062509.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/979/douard-lev-10437_attentive_i-am-more-attentive-to-the-script-of-a-p_3062509.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/979/douard-lev-10437_attentive_i-am-more-attentive-to-the-script-of-a-p_3062509.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am more attentive to the script of a play when I read it than when I see it performed.” — Édouard Levé", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/script-play/douard-lev/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/script-play/douard-lev/", "name": "Script Play Quotes by Édouard Levé", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/script-play/douard-lev/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/979/douard-lev-10437_attentive_i-am-more-attentive-to-the-script-of-a-p_3062509.jpg" }, "description": "1 Script Play quotes by Édouard Levé. 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