“Listening to music in the car is a way of passing the time, thus shortening my life.” — Édouard Levé Life 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
“I am slow to notice when someone mistreats me, it’s always so surprising: evil is somehow unreal.” — Édouard Levé Evil Copy Share Image
“Fifteen years old is the middle of my life, regardless of when I die.” — Édouard Levé Fifteen years Copy Share Image
“I wonder whether anyone besides old people like riot police.” — Édouard Levé Old people Copy Share Image
“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
“Your taste for abbreviation meant that instead of finishing the works you undertook, you finished yourself. You” — Édouard Levé 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
“I am attracted to women who are generous with their time, their smiles, their conversation, their affection, and their physical desire.” — 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
“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 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 Food 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
“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
“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 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 Depression Copy Share Image
“it sometimes happened that you would, in the middle of your exertions, be discouraged by the absurdity of what you were in… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“When you traveled with company, the country would shrink away; your companion would become the subject of your voyage as much as… — Édouard Levé Business 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
“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
“Only the living seem incoherent. Death closes the series of events that constitutes their lives. So we resign ourselves to finding a… — Édouard Levé Accepting life 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 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
“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
“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 Life Copy Share Image
