Raymond Radiguet Quotes
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Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?
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In my incoherence I was grateful that for a few moments I had known what it was to suffer-or so I thought. But nothing is less like a thing that that which is closest to it. A man who had been near to death thinks how he knows death. When the day finally comes for him to meet it, he does not recognise it. 'This is not it,' he says, as he dies.
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We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.
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It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.
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Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.
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The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.
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