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> [“On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-gracq/on-its-own-having-escaped-my-grasp-the-spool-i-had-loosed-was/)

[Julien Gracq](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-gracq/)

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## Other authors on Unwinding

## More by Julien Gracq

> [“A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-gracq/a-history-of-literature-unlike-history-as-such-ought-to-list-only/)

[Julien Gracq](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-gracq/)

> [“Often, beyond the next turning, footfalls of a herd galloping across stone were heard, or further in the distance, with reassuring grunts, a wild…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-gracq/often-beyond-the-next-turning-footfalls-of-a-herd-galloping-across/)

[Julien Gracq](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-gracq/)

> [And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-gracq/and-what-can-still-delight-an-inert-stone-except-to-become-once-more/)

[Julien Gracq](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-gracq/)

> [ “\[Original text in French\] Giovanni n'avait pas menti. Sagra était une merveille baroque, une collision improbable et inquiétante de la nature et de l'art.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-gracq/original-text-in-french-giovanni-n-avait-pas-menti-sagra-tait-une/)

[Julien Gracq](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-gracq/)

> [“It was a fossilized path: the will which had cut this gash out of these solitary places so that the blood and sap would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-gracq/it-was-a-fossilized-path-the-will-which-had-cut-this-gash-out-of/)

[Julien Gracq](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-gracq/)

> [Floating high on the waters of catastrophe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-gracq/floating-high-on-the-waters-of-catastrophe/)

[Julien Gracq](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-gracq/)

> [“No, what numbed these fields, peopled with bad dreams was not the oppressive grip of a plague but rather an ailing retreat, a sort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-gracq/no-what-numbed-these-fields-peopled-with-bad-dreams-was-not-the/)

[Julien Gracq](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-gracq/)

> [“Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-gracq/blood-had-long-since-ceased-to-beat-from-one-end-to-the-other-but-one/)

[Julien Gracq](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-gracq/)

> [“On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-gracq/on-its-own-having-escaped-my-grasp-the-spool-i-had-loosed-was/)

[Julien Gracq](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-gracq/)

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