“Once you confessed to someone that you had been very depressed when dining with her several months earlier. She was stunned, discovering… — Édouard Levé Straight face 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,… — Edouard Levé Dance 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… — Édouard Levé Death 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 Patience 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… — Édouard Levé Happy people 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… — Édouard Levé Time 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… — Édouard Levé Desire Copy Share Image
“I wonder whether anyone besides old people like riot police.” — Édouard Levé Old people 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… — Édouard Levé Happiness Copy Share Image
“Only once can I say “I’m dying” without telling a lie. The best day of my life may already be behind me.” — Edouard Leve Best day Copy Share Image
“At a public urinal the presence of a neighbor delays my micturition.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“When I am coming back from a trip, the best part isn’t going through the airport or getting home, but the taxi… — Édouard Levé Getting Home Copy Share Image
“The homeless embodied the final stage in a decline your life could have tended toward. You did not take them for victims,… — Édouard Levé Life Copy Share Image
“You spoke to strangers for hours. Afterward you walked the streets in search of other cafes, but they were closed. You stretched… — Edouard Levé Language Copy Share Image
“Driving once I thought I saw a road sign that said “Cheese Clinic,” I wondered whether they took care of cheese there… — Édouard Levé Road sign Copy Share Image
“No one other than yourself could have given you a greater taste for life than for death.” — Édouard Levé Death Copy Share Image
“In the midst of this utopia, which only your fellow lone voyagers would perceive, you used to transgress society’s rules unknowingly, and… — Édouard Levé Travel Copy Share Image
