"We have gotten away from this double aspect……" — Raymond Queneau
"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."
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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 Aspect Quotes
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
— Isaac Asimov
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Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
— Margaret Atwood
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The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand…
— Dean Acheson
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect…
— Roger Bannister
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I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.
— Drew Barrymore
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I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face,…
— Beck
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Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
— Aaliyah
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Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an…
— Elizabeth Berkley
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election.…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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