Stephanie Crayencour Quotes

• Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a' l'espe' ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e chappe me" me a' l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Thinking, Kind, Moments

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• Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations over a void.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Intellectual, Three, Void

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• Entre le ro" le de sauveur et celui de complice du bourreau,j'aper c° ois tout au plus l'incommode emploi de victime. Between the role of saviour and that of butcher's accomplice, all I see left for you is the unsavoury role of victim.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Roles, Victim, Butchers

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• Que le Dieu qui nous tue nous vienne en aide! God who kills us, come to our rescue!

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Rescue

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• Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Art, Race, Hands

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