Raymond Radiguet

“ We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from familiarity.”

— Raymond Radiguet

“It is at these troubled periods that frivolity, even license, are most easily understood, "because one enjoys with gusto what tomorrow may…

— Raymond Radiguet

In my incoherence I was grateful that for a few moments I had known what it was to suffer-or so I thought.…

— Raymond Radiguet

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

— Raymond Radiguet

We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.

— Raymond Radiguet

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

— Raymond Radiguet

Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source…

— Raymond Radiguet

“People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other ("Poem")”

— Raymond Radiguet

“ Quand on ment, qu'on dit à une femme qu'on l'aime, on peut croire qu'on ment, mais quelque chose nous a poussé…

— Raymond Radiguet

“Her hands clung to my neck; they would not have held me so fast in a shipwreck. And I did not understand…

— Raymond Radiguet

“The flavour of that first kiss disappointed me, like fruit you taste for the first time. It's not in new things that…

— Raymond Radiguet

“Might becomes apparent only through injustice.”

— Raymond Radiguet

“Instinct is ourguide; a guide which leads to our fall.”

— Raymond Radiguet

The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.

— Raymond Radiguet