Quotes by : Édouard Levé

You were said to have died of suffering. But you died because you searched for happiness at the risk....

The last time I saw you, you were wearing a white cotton shirt. You were standing upright with your wife....

You were not surprised to find yourself ill adapted to the world, but it did surprise you that the world....

You used to believe that with age you would become less unhappy, because you then would have reasons....

A dictionary resembles the world more than a novel does, because the world is not a coherent sequence....

When you traveled with company, the country would shrink away; your companion would become the subject....

Since you seldom spoke, you were rarely wrong. You seldom spoke because you seldom went out. If you did....

You did not fear death. You stepped in its path, but without really desiring it: how can one desire something....

Your life was a hypothesis. Those who die old are made of the past. Thinking of them, one thinks of what....

Your suicide makes the lives of those who outlive you more intense. Should they be threatened by boredom,....