Laurent Binet Quotes

The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

Memory is of no use to the remembered, only to those who remember. We build ourselves with memory and console ourselves with memory.

The homosexuals are the new Jesuits.

So, to cut a long story short, they jumped.

with the formula: "Any similarity of characters

I'm fighting a losing battle. I can't tell this story the way it should be told. This whole hotchpotch of characters, events, dates, and the infinite branching of cause and effect - and these people, these real people who actually existed. I'm barely able to mention a tiny fragment of their lives, their actions, their thoughts. I keep banging my head against the wall of history. And I look up and see, growing all over it - ever higher and denser, like a creeping ivy - the unmappable pattern of causality.

Sometimes, after all, there is a bit of justice in this mean, cruel world.

We always fail to talk about love'. He quickly scans the text – it's about Stendhal. Simon is moved by the thought of Barthes sitting at his desk, thinking about Stendhal, about love, about Italy, completely unaware that every hour spent typing this article was bringing him closer to the moment when he would be knocked over by a laundry van.

Glory to the logos, my friends! Long live dialectics! Let the party begin! May the verb be with you!

In the provinces, being queer is worse than being Arab.

He downs the contents of his glass in a single gulp and, looking at Simon, adds: "This is as amusing as a novel.

You had to choose between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor. You will have war.

How many forgotten heroes sleep in history's great cemetery?

If Barthes, along with Bachelard, is one of those who have done most to enrich criticism during the last thirty years, it is not as a theoretician of a still hazy semiology, but as the champion of a new pleasure in reading.