“You were said to have died of suffering. But there was not as much sadness in you as there is now in… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“This selfishness of your suicide displeased you. But, all things considered, the lull of death won out over life’s painful commotion.” — 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“He resembled a corpse. This was perhaps what you feared: to become inert in a body that still breathes, drinks, and feeds… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Your suicide makes the lives of those who outlive you more intense. Should they be threatened by boredom, or tshould the absurdity… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You did not fear death. You stepped in its path, but without really desiring it: how can one desire something one doesn’t… — Edouard Levé 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 her blindness… — Édouard Levé 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, it didn’t… — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Only the living seem incoherent. Death closes the series of events that constitutes their lives. So we resign ourselves to finding a meaning for… — Édouard Levé 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
“You directed toward yourself a violence that you did not feel toward others. For them you reserved all your patience and tolerance.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You didn’t identify with happy people, and in your excessiveness you projected onto those who had failed in everything, or succeeded in nothing.” — Édouard Levé 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 yourself confronted… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“In their beginnings, events preserve the potential that they lose in their completion. Desire prolongs itself so long as it is not achieved.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You were said to have died of suffering. But there was not as much sadness in you as there is now in those who… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
