“You didn’t like to travel. You rarely went abroad. You would spend your time in your bedroom. It seemed useless to you… — Edouard Levé Time Copy Share Image
“To know makes me grow Not to know harms me To forget frees me.” — Édouard Levé Edouard-leve Copy Share Image
“I have less desire to change things than to change my perception of them.” — Édouard Levé Change Copy Share Image
“If you were still alive, you would perhaps have become a stranger to me. Dead, you are as alive as you are… — Édouard Levé Alive Copy Share Image
“I am more attentive to the script of a play when I read it than when I see it performed.” — Édouard Levé Attentive Copy Share Image
“If I travel with someone, I see half as much of the country as if I traveled by myself.” — Édouard Levé Patriotism Copy Share Image
“Your taste for abbreviation meant that instead of finishing the works you undertook, you finished yourself. You” — Édouard Levé Finished Copy Share Image
“I am attracted to women who are generous with their time, their smiles, their conversation, their affection, and their physical desire.” — Édouard Levé Attracted 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 Corpse 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 Death Copy Share Image
“You would renounce organizing your future. You would let yourself be guided by the randomness of encounters and events, indifferent to one… — Édouard Levé Choice Copy Share Image
“And so you worried about not remembering what happened in between the things you wrote down. You had lived those moments too.… — Édouard Levé Remembering Copy Share Image
“I don’t write in the morning, my brain isn’t up to it yet, I don’t write in the afternoon, I’m too sad,… — Édouard Levé Long time Copy Share Image
“You are like the actor who, at the end of the play, with a final word, reveals that he is a different… — Édouard Levé Actor 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 Life Copy Share Image
“When you were awake, stretched out in your bed in the dark, shutters drawn, your thoughts would flow freely. They would grow… — Edouard Levé Dark 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 Edouard-leve 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 Dead end Copy Share Image