Claude Simon Quotes

• Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.

  Claude Simon

  Art, Flower, Butterfly

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• To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

  Claude Simon

  Memories, Perspective, Perception

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• For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.

  Claude Simon

  Bigs, Chores, Sentences

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• There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.

  Claude Simon

  Real, Reality, Representation

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• In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'

  Claude Simon

  Dog, Plato, Philosophy

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