"It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but…" — Raymond Queneau
"It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience."
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26 Quotes by Raymond Queneau
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Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
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Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end…
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True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.
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The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does…
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet…
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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
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It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to…
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Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical…
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
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All confessions are Odysseys.
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More Concerned Quotes
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the…
— Neil Armstrong
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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
— Bashar al-Assad
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
— David Attenborough
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
— Jane Austen
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial…
— Russell Baker
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If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute…
— Dave Barry
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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
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