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Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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[Wikipedia] Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a Belgian novelist, photographer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir, the second volume of the « Cycle of Mar

Quotes by Jean-Philippe Toussaint

“For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential…

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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“For the painful essence of withdrawal does not reside in the present suffering it brings - withdrawal is painless on the level…

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Addiction

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“There wasn't a human being for several kilometers around, not a news-stand, not a shop, not a café, not a school. Not…

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Cat

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“Les meilleurs livres sont ceux dont on se souvient du fauteuil dans lequel on les a lus.”

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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“She misunderstood my method, in my opinion, not realizing that my approach, rather obscure to those unfamiliar, was based on the idea…

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“In the fight between you and reality, be discouraging.”

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“Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose…

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Discovering the truth

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“And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.”

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Closed eyes

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“The chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you’ve spent talking about it beforehand. ”

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Time

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